Outsourcing his hit-list to Iran:
https://thehill.com/homenews/administrat...on-pompeo/
Quote:President Trump has sparked fresh controversy in his first week back in office with his decision to remove security details from several prominent people with whom he has fallen out.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo and Brian Hook all had their government-provided security teams taken away this week.
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The bottom line is that Trump’s move has stoked suspicions that he is acting out of a desire for retribution.
Those fears are magnified by the president’s shoulder-shrugging response to the potential consequences of his decision.
Speaking to reporters in North Carolina on Friday, Trump said he would not feel a sense of responsibility if any of the people from whom he had pulled security came to harm.
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Last year, the FBI’s field office in Miami issued an alert for an Iranian man, Majid Dastjani Farahani, whom the bureau alleged was an intelligence officer for Tehran and who was wanted for questioning “in connection with the recruitment of individuals for various operations in the United States, to include lethal targeting of current and former United States Government officials.”
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The FBI contended that the Iranian regime wanted such an operation carried out in revenge for the 2020 killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. drone strike during Trump’s first term.
At the time the FBI issued its alert, it was widely reported that Pompeo — serving as secretary of State at the time — was one of the people the Iranians wanted to kill.
As for Bolton, an Iranian man was charged in absentia in 2022 for purportedly attempting to arrange his murder.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administrat...on-pompeo/
