Who is that Iranian whose information will be given by America a reward of Rs 167 crore?
You must have often heard that a reward of Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2 lakh is announced for the person who gives information leading to the arrest of the accused, but imagine how big and what crime a person has committed that America has announced a reward of not Rs 1-2 lakh but Rs 167 crore on him.
America has recently announced a bounty of Rs 167 crore on a man from Iran. America alleges that this man had plotted the murder of an advisor of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Who is the accused?
The name of the Iranian man whom America is looking for is Shahram Poursafi. America has declared the IRGC organization as a terrorist. Shahram Poursafi is a member of this organization. The US State Department said Shahram Poursafi is working on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) in a murder-for-money conspiracy.
What is the crime?
America has accused this Iranian man of plotting to kill former President Donald Trump's National Security Advisor John Bolton. Due to this, a reward has been announced for the arrest of this man.
The US suddenly issued this notice against Shahram Poursafi on Thursday because presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump claimed that there was a big threat to his life from Iran. Also, if this question is in your mind as to why the person from Iran allegedly targeted Trump's advisor Bolton, then the reason behind it is that Bolton was a master of foreign policy and he is a critic of Iran.
Conspiracy to murder in exchange for Rs 2.5 crore
The US says that Iranian Shahram Poursafi was allegedly involved in Bolton's murder and was plotting to kill him. Shahram Poursafi conspired to kill security advisor Bolton in Washington, DC in exchange for about Rs 2.5 crore between October 2021 and April 2022.
According to the US, the Iranian man hatched this conspiracy against advisor Bolton when he worked as former President Donald Trump's National Security Advisor between 2018 and 2019. Shahram Poursafi is accused of recovering weapons in the plan to assassinate Bolton.
Designated global terrorist
The US Department of Justice filed charges against Iranian Shahram Poursafi on August 5, 2022, and a case was registered. The US Treasury Department designated Poursafi as a global terrorist on June 1, 2023. After being declared a global terrorist, Poursafi cannot buy any kind of property in the US and cannot do any kind of business with American citizens. If found guilty, Poursafi can be imprisoned for more than 10 years and fined more than five lakh dollars.
What did Iran say?
America says that in January 2020, America killed Commander Qasim Suleimani in Iraq, after which Iran planned to kill Bolton, but this plan could not be completed because the direct killer became an informant of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Iran's comment on these allegations of America has also come out. Iran has rejected these allegations of America by calling them imaginary.