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 spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
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.