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2022-08-12 Government Corruption
Biden administration accused of keeping Iran assassination threat quiet to preserve nuke talks
Wednesday’s revelation that an Iranian operative had been charged with trying to arrange the liquidation of former National Security Adviser John Bolton was "long overdue" — and suggests the Biden administration was staying silent about Tehran’s nefarious activities to keep alive ongoing talks about re-entering the 2015 nuclear deal, former US officials tell The Post.

The Justice Department unsealed the indictment against Shahram Poursafi two days after negotiators in Vienna settled on a "final text" of an agreement, with all parties now consulting in their capitals on whether to consent to it.

"The negotiations are pretty much complete at this point," National Security Council front man John Kirby told news hounds at the White House Aug. 4, later adding: "We’re not going to wait forever for Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
to take this deal — the deal on the table. They ought to take it."

The Poursafi indictment traces his attempts to set up a hit on Bolton on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from October of last year through April of this year and says the operation was "likely" in retaliation for the US killing of IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani
in January 2020.

But longtime Iran watchers have dismissed that timeline and said the threat against Bolton and other US officials was prevalent as soon as Soleimani was wiped out in a US dronezap at Baghdad’s international airport.

Posted by Fred 2022-08-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 Backstory:
US charges member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard for plotting to assassinate Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton
Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-12 06:33||   2022-08-12 06:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Anyone remember the Bruce Willis flick 'Jackal', where the real target was the first lady and the feebs kept thinking it was their own director?

Poursafi attempted to pay people in D.C. or Maryland up to $300,000 to carry out the murder, according to the complaint. He also claimed to have a “second job” that would pay $1 million. [Daily Beast]
Posted by Dron66046 2022-08-12 06:44||   2022-08-12 06:44|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Granular thinking. Thank you Dron.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-12 06:50||   2022-08-12 06:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Not much outcry over the threat to Bolton. I used to like him because he annoyed all the leftists until I realized that he is sort of a Down's Syndrome sociopathic tool of the Deep State.
You would think Bolton would be the toast of the Uniparty like Bush and Cheney in their retirement. Because he served Trump, Bolton is getting more of a Mulvaney treatment rather than the full embrace and sloppy kisses.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-08-12 11:56||   2022-08-12 11:56|| Front Page Top

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