Crime & Justice
US offers $20 million for information on IRGC hitman Shahram Poursafi
Poursafi is believed to be working on behalf of the IRGC Quds Force to arrange the murder-for-hire of former US national security adviser.
![The US State Department's Rewards for Justice program is offering a reward of up to $20 million for information leading to the arrest of IRGC mastermind Shahram Poursafi. [US Justice Department]](/gc3/images/2024/10/02/47749-fbi-wanted-poster-370_237.webp)
By Pishtaz |
The United States is offering a reward of up to $20 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) mastermind Shahram Poursafi for his role in an overseas assassination plot.
Poursafi, also known as Shahram Pursafi, Mehdi Rezayi and Shahin Pourbakhsh, is a uniformed member of the IRGC, the US State Department's Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program said September 26.
He is believed to be working on behalf of the IRGC Quds Force (IRGC-QF) to arrange the transnational murder-for-hire of former US National Security Adviser John Bolton.
From October 2021 to April 2022, Iran-based Poursafi attempted to hire criminal elements within the United States to murder Bolton in exchange for $300,000, the State Department said.
"Poursafi allegedly provided material support and resources to facilitate the attempted killing," it said in a statement.
"Poursafi told the potential assassin -- who actually became a confidential source for US investigators -- that once he completed the Bolton murder he would have a second assassination job for him," it added.
The US Justice Department unsealed a criminal complaint against Poursafi for his role in the alleged plot on August 5, 2022.
Poursafi remains at large abroad. He should be considered "armed and dangerous," the Justice Department said.
The US Treasury designated Poursafi as a terrorist on June 1, 2023, noting his involvement in the plot.
Global terror campaign
The Iranian regime has a long history of targeting dissidents living abroad.
Its global campaign of terror has killed some 360 individuals outside Iran since 1978, with assassinations taking place in 40 countries, according to a May 2020 State Department report.
Assassinations have been directed by the IRGC-QF and Iran's Ministry of Intelligence for the most part, as well as by proxies such as Lebanese Hizbullah, it said.
Since its inception in 1984, the RFJ program has paid out over $250 million to more than 125 people worldwide who provided actionable information that has helped resolve threats to US national security.
Information on Poursafi or associated individuals can be shared via Signal at +1-202-702-7843 or via the RFJ Tor-based tips-reporting channel: he5dybnt7sr6cm32xt77pazmtm65flqy6irivtflruqfc5ep7eiodiad.onion (TOR browser required).
"All information will be kept strictly confidential. Relocation may be available," per the reward announcement.
Please don't send this news anymore, don't insult my country. This is the country of great people and I love it.
Terrorists, you are humanoid animals, not the brave people of Iran, the earth. You fools, look at your own filthy history first, then slander free people. During the revolution, any person who did not sell himself to you anti-humans was on your assassination list. You took Iran's nuclear scientists and other commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, whom you could not compete with, and tracked them by your own spy satellite until you martyred them. You cowards, you didn't even have the dare to face any of them. Like women, you hide in your own shelter or a rat's nest and complain about anti-human rights.
Dear Shahram, may God help you. You rock. Thanks to these dishonorable people, we were able to know real men. I always knew that Hajj Qassem Soleimani's path would continue and his weapon would not fall to the ground, and a brave man would pick it up with zeal. People like you are in our hearts, no one can touch you. May you be with God’s grace.
However, the Iranian community is more manly and braver than your claims. But during these 40 years, did we see who the terrorist is? From biochemistry and physical to such extent that enslavement and assassination Involves the originality and personality of individuals? May God increase the number of Poorsafis so that everywhere in the world achieves security and peace.
Good, excellent.
Oh, what could have happened, dear Shahram , I would have delivered it, and I would have taken the money. Shahram, I need the money man, and you are dying anyways.
We are considering it.
I think I know exactly him in Tehran. I saw him with a fake name. I can help you in the southern neighborhoods of Tehran
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It's very excellent.
You can’t make something out of nothing.