FBI: Suspected Assassin Is Targeting US Officials

The FBI office in Miami, Florida, sent an alert on that it is “seeking information” on an Iranian intelligence officer who is wanted in connection to assassination plots against U.S. officials after the killing of former Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in early 2020.

Majid Dastjani Farahani, the officer, “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 Qassem Soleimani,” the federal law enforcement agency said this week in a “most wanted“ notice.

A U.S. State Department-designated terrorist since 2005, Mr. Soleimani was killed during a Trump administration-ordered targeted airstrike on Jan. 3, 2020, near Baghdad, Iraq, for the killings of American soldiers and plots to target Americans.

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