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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/us/politics/iranian-john-bolton-assassination-charges.html
U.S. Charges Iranian in Plot to Kill Former National Security Adviser
(New York Times) Glenn Thrush - The Justice Department charged a member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on Wednesday with planning to assassinate John R. Bolton, who served as U.S. national security adviser. Court documents suggested a chilling level of sophistication in the planning. At one point, an operative in Tehran provided details of Bolton's movements that could not have been known through public sources. The accused plotter, Shahram Poursafi, 45, remains at large, presumably in Iran. The plan was ultimately foiled by a confidential federal informant who posed as a would-be assassin.