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Botragelad: 4:55am On Mar 05, 2024
The U.S. government is intensifying a manhunt for an Iranian intelligence operative who the Federal Bureau of Investigation believes has been plotting to assassinate current and former American officials, including one-time Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

The FBI’s Miami field office on Friday issued a public alert seeking information on Majid Dastjani Farahani, a suspected member of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, who the Bureau alleged has been recruiting “individuals for operations in the U.S., to include lethal targeting of current/former USG officials.”

It’s unclear why the FBI issued its warning in Florida. But the U.S. government warned in a Most Wanted notice issued Friday that Farahani speaks Spanish and frequently moves between Iran and Venezuela. The U.S.’s Department of Justice convicted an alleged Iranian operative in 2011 of working with Mexican drug cartels to attempt to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s former ambassador to Washington, Adel al-Jubeir, while he dined at a Georgetown restaurant. In January, the DoJ indicted an Iranian gang leader for allegedly working with of the Hells Angels to kill Iranian dissidents living in Maryland.

The Iranian government has repeatedly vowed over the past four years to avenge the 2020 death of Major General Qasem Soleimani – a commander of Iran’s elite Qods Force – [/b]whom the Trump istration assassinated in Baghdad using a drone strike on his convoy. [b]The DoJ indicted of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) in 2022 for allegedly plotting to murder Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, who served in the White House in the months leading up to Soleimani’s death.

U.S. officials told Semafor they believe Pompeo and Trump’s special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, are also on Tehran’s hit list. The U.S. government is currently providing both men with around-the-clock security due to the severity of the threat.

The FBI said Friday that Farahani, 42, was recruiting individuals “as revenge” for Soleimani’s death and to conduct “surveillance activities focused on religious sites, businesses, and other facilities in the United States.” The Treasury Department sanctioned Farahani in December.

There’s growing evidence that Iran and its allies are operating aggressively inside the U.S. In August 2022, a self-avowed er of the Islamic Republic stabbed the British-American novelist Salman Rushdie at an upstate New York literary festival in a suspected attempt to make good on the religious fatwa Tehran placed on the writer’s head in 1989. The Department of Justice is still investigating whether the Lebanese-American assailant was acting directly under Iran’s orders.

Last January, the DoJ indicted three natives of Azerbaijan for allegedly attempting to murder the Iranian-American women’s rights activist, Masih Alinejad, in New York. U.S. law enforcement said they also derailed a 2021 Iranian plot that aimed to kidnap Alinejad in Brooklyn and spirit her by speedboat to Venezuela, a close ally of Iran’s.

Tehran, in virtually all of its operations against the U.S. – including military strikes and assassination plots – appear to work almost solely through proxies. United States law enforcement officials told Semafor that they assume Tehran would maintain this doctrine in any attack on the Trump-era officials, and Farahani appears to be working along these same lines. This could make proving attribution behind any attack very difficult, these officials said.

Brian Hook, the former U.S. envoy, told a congressional hearing last week that he believed the plots against him continued and thanked U.S. law enforcement for protecting him. “I wish we were in a place that it was not necessary, but that is where we are,” he said.

The Iranian government has made the avenging of Soleimani’s assassination one of its top national security objectives. Senior of the IRGC have said in recent weeks that Hamas’s October attack on southern Israel was driven, in part, by this aim. “The Al-Aqsa Storm was one of the retaliations of the Axis of Resistance against the Zionists for the martyrdom of Qasem Soleimani,” Iranian state media quoted IRGC spokesman, Ramezan Sharif, as saying in December.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi also openly threatened U.S officials for assassination during his September speech at the United Nations in New York. “The Islamic Republic of Iran, through all tools and capacities in order to bring to justice the perpetrators and all those who had a hand in this government sanctioned act of terror, will not sit until that is done,” he said. “The blood of the oppressed will not be forgotten.”

Source;
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/04/2024/fbi-hunts-for-suspected-iranian-assassin-targeting-trump-era-officials

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Botragelad: 5:03am On Mar 05, 2024
Does anyone else recall the part from Homeland series where Abu Nazir brainwashed and roped in Brody and Tom Walker to do a attack on the US land. Looks like what this guy is up to.

Also how an Iranian officer had a massive part in the Langley blast. Same same!

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madridguy(m): 5:20am On Mar 05, 2024
The Iranian government has repeatedly vowed over the past four years to avenge the 2020 death of Major General Qasem Soleimani – a commander of Iran’s elite Qods Force – whom the Trump istration assassinated in Baghdad using a drone strike on his convoy.

The US government should stop their propaganda and be ready to face whatever their eyes see from the Iranian government. Do you expect them not to avenge the death of a whole Major General ?

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wrongman665(m): 5:23am On Mar 05, 2024
Muhammedpeoplegrin

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bewla(m): 6:29am On Mar 05, 2024
Witch-hunting done start again

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bewla(m): 6:30am On Mar 05, 2024
wrongman665:
Muhammedpeoplegrin
Yes as your people don't want us
Botragelad: 6:57am On Mar 05, 2024
madridguy:
The Iranian government has repeatedly vowed over the past four years to avenge the 2020 death of Major General Qasem Soleimani – a commander of Iran’s elite Qods Force – whom the Trump istration assassinated in Baghdad using a drone strike on his convoy.

The US government should stop their propaganda and be ready to face whatever their eyes see from the Iranian government. Do you expect them not to avenge the death of a whole Major General ?
Major general who was hunted like a terrorist! Lol

He was a terrorist. THE ONLY GOOD TERRORIST IS A DEAD TERRORIST!

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LeeSmart: 6:59am On Mar 05, 2024
If Iranians put you for front just forget it oo... It either you suffer or ur children suffers it.

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mytime24(f): 7:04am On Mar 05, 2024
A wanted man by US 😳

Time to start covering his face and dressing like a woman 👠

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nairalanda1(m): 7:11am On Mar 05, 2024
Game on. cheesy
valentineuwakwe(m): 7:20am On Mar 05, 2024
Why is Iran using proxies to attack the U.S., why not attack directly with all there gra gra?

You sponsor terrorists and terrorism around the world yet you are asking for sanctions to be lifted on your country. The worst mistake the world will make is to allow Iran develop and have a atomic bomb.....this will be the beginning of a game changer in world affairs!

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madridguy(m): 7:30am On Mar 05, 2024
How is he a terrorist?

Botragelad:

Major general who was hunted like a terrorist! Lol

He was a terrorist. THE ONLY GOOD TERRORIST IS A DEAD TERRORIST!

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madridguy(m): 7:32am On Mar 05, 2024
Using which proxies to attack which US?

valentineuwakwe:
Why is Iran using proxies to attack the U.S., why not attack directly with all there gra gra?

You sponsor terrorists and terrorism around the world yet you are asking for sanctions to be lifted on your country. The worst mistake the world will make is to allow Iran develop and have a atomic bomb.....this will be the beginning of a game changer in world affairs!

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AmakaTips2: 7:49am On Mar 05, 2024
Okay
Helpfromabove1(m): 8:23am On Mar 05, 2024
B
EmekaBlue(m): 8:25am On Mar 05, 2024
This religion people and terrorism act be like 5&6

Brainwashed 100%

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salbis(m): 8:26am On Mar 05, 2024
This one cup don full.

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Kwaramustgoodag: 8:28am On Mar 05, 2024
Hi Iran

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Mpcoll001: 8:28am On Mar 05, 2024
Okay na
morgybia(m): 8:28am On Mar 05, 2024
wrongman665:
Muhammedpeoplegrin
Jesus people with bouthing
G00dharddick: 8:30am On Mar 05, 2024
A very sane society where things works!

I can bet my balls that they'll get that terrorist before next week. That's how sane societies works!

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CondemnBattery(f): 8:31am On Mar 05, 2024
Coward head slamming terrorists

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Marvieduke(f): 8:33am On Mar 05, 2024
Once FBI put you on most wanted list, just know it is game over for you.

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FOOTSOLDIER2(f): 8:33am On Mar 05, 2024
FBI should first come and hunt Tinimbum, the renowned well recognized international drug war lord and Chicago first class ant

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Ofunaofu: 8:34am On Mar 05, 2024
Botragelad:

Major general who was hunted like a terrorist! Lol

He was a terrorist. THE ONLY GOOD TERRORIST IS A DEAD TERRORIST!

Because, in that state, he no longer has the capacity to cause more harm.

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Goodlady(f): 8:35am On Mar 05, 2024
Iranians are jokers. Una no moda Trump na his officers una wan keee!
Anyways, Trump's coming back. And he ll fûck the anus of Iran very well.
You guys ll cum alongside Hamas!
Those mofos depended on Putin that's a Catholic! Even though he has beef with the west but he knows no 1 enemy of the church is the janjaweêd muslims who are Iranians, Iraqis, Hamas, Afghanistan, Palestine and their terror gangs. So they should know all those Russian nukes are for their heads!
It's time genuine muslims come out and denounce terrorism and their financers in Islam. Saudi Arabia is balling cos they ignored terror Islam. So why ll Iran carry matter of Muhammad's family for head as if he's their kindred? No be borrow then borrow the religion? Anyways there are janjaweêds in northern Nigeria too. Tueh! Religion has enslaved many!
That's why some muslims in Nigeria ll protest on IDF and Hamas issue but ignore herdsmen killings, banditry, religious killings and other menace affecting their home.country of Nigeria? Where's ya loyalty? Nigeria or Palestine?

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BigDawsNet: 8:35am On Mar 05, 2024
mytime24:
A wanted man by US 😳

Time to start covering is face and dressing like a woman 👠

They will catch him... even if he likes make he cut away his manhood and do boobs surgery...

They will find him soon

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AMAUCHESKY(m): 8:36am On Mar 05, 2024
I don't want to talk

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CCIA: 8:37am On Mar 05, 2024
wrongman665:
Muhammedpeoplegrin
Jeon people grin
Demiurgos: 8:37am On Mar 05, 2024
valentineuwakwe:
Why is Iran using proxies to attack the U.S., why not attack directly with all there gra gra?

You sponsor terrorists and terrorism around the world yet you are asking for sanctions to be lifted on your country. The worst mistake the world will make is to allow Iran develop and have a atomic bomb.....this will be the beginning of a game changer in world affairs!
Look, i'm not in of iran here but the main sponsor of terrorism around the world is the US itself. Most of the killings you see in various third world countries are sponsored by them

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