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The U.S. State Department is offering a reward to track down an Iranian national who tried to pay to have former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton killed.The State Department is offering up to $20 million 'for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Shahram Poursafi,' a member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who attempted to pay an assassin to target Bolton.
Poursafi told the potential assassin – who actually became a confidential source for U.S. investigators – that once he completed the Bolton murder he would have a second assassination job for him,' the agency said in a release.The Department of Justice indicted Poursafi in 2022. Under the charges, he faces up to 25 years in prison and fines of half a million dollars. In 2023, the U.S. Treasury designated Poursafi a terrorist, freezing his U.S. assets.Poursafi remains at large.
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