THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE UNITED STATES: From John Bolton to Salman Rushdie, Iran’s Unrestrained Attacks on Americans and Their Leaders
CHAUTAUQUA, NEW YORK: A 24-year-old New Jersey man named Hadi Matar allegedly stabbed controversial author Salman Rushdie up to 15 times while speaking at an event in New York on Friday, August 12. An investigation is currently underway into the attack, which took place during the event. Although the reason for the strike is not yet known, it undeniably drew attention to Iran’s ongoing intrigues against the United States. Since the 1980s, Salman Rushdie has been continuously threatened with execution by Iran. Many Muslims around the world considered his novel “The Satanic Verses”, published in 1988, as blasphemous.
After some time, the author’s works were declared illegal in a number of Islamic countries and Ayatollah Khomeini also issued a fatwa against him. According to the Daily Mail, there seems to have been an increase in the number of conspiracies against the United States. More recently, it was alleged that former national security adviser John Bolton was the intended target of an assassination attempt. Reportedly, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was another target of Iran’s harassment. After a US drone strike two years ago killed an Iranian general named Qassem Soleimani, the pair, along with Donald Trump, have already received assassination threats from Tehran.
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Author Salman Rushdie’s arm nerves have been severed, he is at risk of losing an eye and he is on a ventilator after suffering liver damage in the attack.
A number of authors, including JK Rowling and Stephen King, have spoken out against the “HORRIFYING” attack on Salman Rushdie.
On October 12, 2017, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, author Salman Rushdie was seen sitting on the blue sofa at the Frankfurt Book Fair (also known as The devious plan to take down John Bolton
A member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is said to have hatched a plan to assassinate John Bolton, as reported by the Daily Mail (IRGC). It was revealed by prosecutors that Shahram Poursafi offered $300,000 to unnamed “criminal entities” in the United States to carry out the contract killing. This appears to have been an act of retaliation against the United States for the killing of top guard commander Soleimani in Iraq in January 2020.
According to Bolton’s comments in an interview with CNN, the alleged plot shed light on Iran’s attitude towards international affairs. “What is crucial to understand is how meticulous the work was to send me to the afterlife,” he said, adding: “I think it is enough obvious that Iran is prosecuting more than former members of the government”.
On the other hand, Iran has refuted all the allegations that have been made against Poursafi. According to Nasser Kanani, spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, the US Department of Justice “made statements without providing legitimate evidence, creating a new work of fiction”. He went on to say, “This time they imagined a conspiracy involving individuals like Bolton whose political careers failed,” then he concluded by saying, “The Islamic Republic warns against any action that threatens Iranian civilians using false allegations. .”
John Bolton, the United States national security adviser, was present in the Oval Office during the signing of House Resolution 390, often known as the American Health Care Act.
The focus is on Mike Pompeo.
The Department of Justice reportedly said Poursafi planned to pay $1 million for a second job, which was reported by The Daily Mail. According to Morgan Ortagus, who previously worked as a State Department spokesperson, the second target was former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. After a US drone strike that killed Soleimani, the National Counterterrorism Center concluded in June that Pompeo was one of the “priority targets”.
It has been alleged that an intelligence report shared by Yahoo! The news was widely reported both within the government and to law enforcement across the country. According to the article, some of the “priority revenge targets” are former President Donald Trump, former Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and former CENTCOM commander General Kenneth McKenzie.
In January, Iran’s leader Ayatollah Khamenei circulated an animated film that appeared to show a robot ordering a drone attack on President Trump while the president was golfing at Mar-a-Lago. in Florida. A contest was held to commemorate Soleimani’s passing two years ago, and one of the entries required for entry was a video titled “Revenge is Inevitable.” In a separate incident, an Iranian spy known as Khalid Mehdiyev was indicted for uttering threats against Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American journalist and rights activist. He was said to be carrying an AK-47 with him as he prowled around the reporter’s home in Brooklyn. On several occasions, Alinejad has expressed her disapproval of Iranian rules requiring women to cover their heads.
Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State for the United States of America, speaks to members of the press November 26, 2019, in the State Department briefing room in Washington, District of Columbia. Secretary Pompeo touched on a variety of issues throughout his speech, including Iran, Cuba and the most recent protests in Hong Kong.
