State Department offers $20 million reward for info leading to arrest of Iranian charged in Bolton assassination plot

Published September 26, 2024 10:56am ET



The State Department has offered up to $20 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of the Iranian operative who has been accused of plotting to assassinate former national security adviser John Bolton.

Shahram Poursafi is a uniformed member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps whom the U.S. Justice Department has accused of plotting to hire assassins to carry out the murder of Bolton. The DOJ unsealed a criminal complaint against him on August 5, 2022.

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