Iran wants Qasem Soleimani’s death at the hands of the Trump administration answered for, and it appears our enemies in Tehran have a man operating in the U.S. who is actively recruiting others to create havoc inside the United States.
The U.S. government is intensifying a manhunt for an Iranian intelligence operative who the Federal Bureau of Investigation believes has been plotting to assassinate current and former American officials, including one-time Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
The FBI’s Miami field office on Friday issued a public alert seeking information on Majid Dastjani Farahani, a suspected member of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, who the Bureau alleged has been recruiting “individuals for operations in the U.S., to include lethal targeting of current/former USG officials.”
It’s unclear why the FBI issued its warning in Florida. But the U.S. government warned in a Most Wanted notice issued Friday that Farahani speaks Spanish and frequently moves between Iran and Venezuela. The U.S.’s Department of Justice convicted an alleged Iranian operative in 2011 of working with Mexican drug cartels to attempt to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s former ambassador to Washington, Adel al-Jubeir, while he dined at a Georgetown restaurant. In January, the DOJ indicted an Iranian gang leader for allegedly working with members of the Hells Angels to kill Iranian dissidents living in Maryland.
The Iranian government has repeatedly vowed over the past four years to avenge the 2020 death of Major General Qasem Soleimani — a commander of Iran’s elite Qods Force — whom the Trump administration assassinated in Baghdad using a drone strike on his convoy. The DoJ indicted members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) in 2022 for allegedly plotting to murder Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, who served in the White House in the months leading up to Soleimani’s death.
Mexican drug cartels, Venezuelan involvement, and Tehran conspiring together sounds like something out of The Expendables, but sometimes life mimics art. When dealing with Tehran, one must recall that they have longer memories of slights than we do — in years and even centuries — and that the combination of organized crime in the form of Mexican cartels and a wide-open southern border increases the likelihood of getting men in and out of the United States. There are always foreign threats. The list of those who despise us is measured in petabytes. But never has the rule of law felt more fragile, our alliances more uncertain, and our governance less competent than it is now. Our enemies want chaos, and we’ve allowed conditions to degrade to a level where they could succeed in producing unthinkable outcomes.
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