{"id":56101,"date":"2022-08-10T16:18:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T16:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=56101"},"modified":"2022-08-10T16:18:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T16:18:19","slug":"justice-department-charges-alleged-iranian-operative-in-plot-to-assassinate-bolton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=56101","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department charges alleged Iranian operative in plot to assassinate Bolton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department on Wednesday announced charges against an alleged Iranian operative accused of plotting to kill former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton.<\/p>\n<p>Shahram Poursafi, also known as Mehdi Rezayi, allegedly conspired between October of 2021 and April of this year to kill Bolton according to a criminal complaint released by the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish to thank the Justice Dept for initiating the criminal proceeding unsealed today; the FBI for its diligence in discovering and tracking the Iranian regime\u2019s criminal threat to American citizens; and the Secret Service for providing protection against Tehran\u2019s efforts,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmbJohnBolton\/status\/1557378114602385408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bolton said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Poursafi has been charged with the use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder for hire and providing and attempting to provide material support to a transnational murder plot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/08\/10\/justice-department-iranian-operative-assassinate-bolton-00050817\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics The Justice Department on Wednesday announced charges against an alleged Iranian operative accused of plotting to kill former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton. Shahram Poursafi, also&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}