Iran targets Americans from John Bolton to Salman Rushdie
Following the US drone strike that resulted in the murder of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani two years ago, Bolton, Pompeo, and Trump all received death threats from Tehran.
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After a 24-year-old man from New Jersey named Hadi Matar stabbed the controversial author up to 15 times on stage during a New York event on Friday, August 12, the incident is currently under investigation. Although the attack’s purpose is yet unknown, Iran’s ongoing plots against the US have undoubtedly come under the limelight. Iran has been threatening Salman Rushdie’s life for many years. The Satanic Verses, one of his novels published in 1988, was deemed offensive by many Muslims throughout the world.
Later, the author was outlawed in a number of Islamic countries, and Ayatollah Khomeini subsequently issued a fatwa against him. The Daily Mail claims that there have been more plots against the US recently since John Bolton, a former national security adviser, was apparently the subject of an assassination attempt. Mike Pompeo, a former secretary of state, was reportedly also a target of Tehran. The two, along with Donald Trump, have already received death threats from Tehran following the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by a US drone strike two years ago.
Stephen King, JK Rowling, and others denounce the “HORRIFYING” attack on Salman Rushdie
John Bolton’s assassination scheme
The Daily Mail claims that a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps plotted to murder John Bolton (IRGC). According to the prosecution, Shahram Poursafi offered $300K for the contract killing to unnamed “criminal entities” inside the United States. The killing of top Guards commander Soleimani by the US in Iraq in January 2020 is said to be the reason behind it.
Bolton claimed that the alleged scheme exposed Iran’s foreign policy strategy in an interview with CNN. “I think it’s very clear that Iran is after more than just former government officials,” the author continued, “so it’s important to understand just how detailed the work was to send me off to the great beyond, and really the extent to which the government of Iran had thought this through and was engaged in planning.”
Iran, however, refuted each and every charge made against Poursafi. According to Nasser Kanani, a spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, “The US Justice Department has made claims without giving credible evidence, creating a fresh work of fiction.” The Islamic Republic advises against any action that attacks Iranian nationals by making absurd accusations, he continued, concluding, “This time they have devised a strategy involving people like Bolton whose political career has collapsed.”
John Bolton, the national security adviser, is present at the Oval Office meeting where U.S. President Donald Trump signed H.R. 390, the
On December 11, 2018, in Washington, DC, National Security Adviser John Bolton attends a meeting in the Oval Office where US President Donald Trump signs H.R. 390, the “Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018”. (Image: Mark Wilson via Getty Images)
Mike Pompeo is a target
According to The Daily Mail, the Justice Department claimed that Poursafi was allegedly preparing to pay $1 million for a second job. According to Morgan Ortagus, who previously worked as the State Department’s spokeswoman, Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of state, was the apparent second target. After a US drone attack killed Soleimani, the National Counter Terrorism Center agreed that Pompeo was one of the “priority targets” in June.
According to reports, a report on intelligence given by Yahoo! News was widely disseminated within the government and to law enforcement organisations countrywide. According to the article, General Kenneth McKenzie, the former commander of CENTCOM, former Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, and former President Donald Trump were among the “top targets for vengeance.”
Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, tweeted an animated film in January that appeared to portray a robot ordering a drone attack on President Trump while he was playing golf at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. The video, entitled “Revenge is Inevitable,” was created as part of a contest to commemorate the passing of Soleimani two years ago. In a different occasion, an Iranian spy named Khalid Mehdiyev was charged with making threats against Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American journalist and rights advocate. He reportedly armed himself with an AK-47 and stalked the Brooklyn home of the journalist. Alinejad, on several occasions, criticized Iran’s head-covering laws for women.