John Bolton, former White House National Security Advisor during Donald Trump’s first term, with whom he has since broken, revealed Tuesday that the president had deprived him of Secret Service protection for high-ranking officials .
Mr. Bolton, long considered a warmonger, says he is the target of an assassination plan instigated by Iran between 2021 and 2022.
Tehran would have wanted to avenge the death of its general Qassem Soleimani, killed on January 3, 2020 in a drone strike in Iraq ordered by President Donald Trump (2017-2021).
John Bolton, 76, whose face with a thick mustache is known from his time as UN ambassador under President George W. Bush during the Iraq War, said he was “disappointed, but not surprised” by Donald Trump’s decision.
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He recalled on sponsored an assassination project by “trying to recruit a hitman to target him”.
Since September, the American government has been offering up to $20 million for information leading to the arrest of this man, Shahram Poursafi, alias Mehdi Rezayi.
-According to Republican Bolton, Democrat Biden had extended his Secret Service protection measure in January 2021, but Donald Trump deprived him of it on Monday and cut off all access to security and intelligence data. A presidential decree accuses him of having revealed “sensitive information from his time in government” at the White House from 2018 to 2019.
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“The threat remains, as evidenced by the recent arrest of someone who attempted to organize the assassination of President Trump,” warned Mr. Bolton, referring to rumors of a planned Iranian attack against Mr. Trump.
In September, a 46-year-old Pakistani man, close to Iran and charged with “terrorism” for plotting the assassination of an American official, pleaded not guilty before federal justice. Asif Merchant is accused of seeking to recruit hitmen.
Joe Biden’s Justice Minister, Merrick Garland, ruled out any link with the assassination attempt against Donald Trump during a meeting in Pennsylvania on July 13.
On January 14 on NBC News, President Massoud Pezeshkian again denied the rumors involving Iran.
