FBI Office in Miami Launches Urgent Manhunt for Iranian Intel Officer, Accused of Plotting Assassinations of Several Trump-era Officials
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On Tuesday, news reports began to circulate, announcing the hunt for an Iranian named Majid Dastjani Farahani. According to the FBI, “[he] is 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 as revenge for the killing of IRGC-QF Commander Qasem Soleimani.”
Ordered by former president Donald Trump, Soleimani was killed by a U.S. drone strike in January 2020 near a Baghdad airport. Officials on Iran’s retaliatory kill list include former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former national security adviser John Bolton, former U.S. special representative for Iran Brian Hook,
