The FBI is steadily looking for an Iranian intelligence officer, overseeing a plot to assassinate current and former federal government officials as revenge for the Trump administration’s 2020 airstrike killing of an Iranian military official.
The FBI’s Miami field office issued an alert last Friday stating, “Majid Dastjani Farahani is wanted for questioning in connection with the recruitment of individuals for various operations in the United States. Those operations include; the assassinations of current and former United States Government officials as revenge for the killing of IRGC-QF Commander Qasem Soleimani.”
Major General Qassem Soleimani was the commander of Iran’s Quds Force, a specialized unit in the Revolutionary Guards, when he was killed in a drone strike at Baghdad International Airport as he was leaving by car in January 2020.
Donald Trump, who was president at the time, ordered the assassination with the Department of Defense. The reasoning at the time was that the U.S. military had taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.
“General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region,” the statement said. “Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more.”
The FBI is alleging that Farahani, the Iranian intelligence officer sought by the FBI, also reportedly recruited individuals for surveillance activities focused on religious sites, businesses and other facilities in the United States.
Farahani acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security.
Farahani is 41 years old, has brown and gray hair, brown eyes, and speaks Farsi, English, Spanish and French. He also has ties to or may visit Iran and Venezuela.
Farahani’s plot specifically focuses on Trump-era officials, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Brian Hook, who worked as Trump’s special envoy for Iran. Citing unnamed U.S. officials, Semafor reports that both men are being provided with around-the-clock security due to the nature of the threat.
How did this assassin get into our country? Probably because of Biden’s open border policies. As if it isn’t bad enough that Biden has weaponized the Justice Department against his enemies, now he’s welcoming Iranian terrorists into our country to do his dirty work? If this isn’t grounds for impeachment then I don’t know what is! Absolutely disgraceful!