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EXCLUSIVE: Former White House National Security Advisor Amb. John Bolton said the assassination plot against him by an Iranian operative, and continued threats from Iran to American citizens on American soil is “unprecedented” and “an act of war,” telling Fox News the Biden Administration has been “signaling weakness” to Tehran and should “terminate” negotiations on the Iran Nuclear Deal.
The Justice Department on Wednesday announced charges against Iranian operative, Shahram Poursafi, a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, for an alleged plot to assassinate Bolton, who served as former President Trump’s national security adviser until 2019.
U.S. officials said the plot was likely planned in retaliation for the January 2020 strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, a revered Iranian leader and the head of Iran’s Quds Force.
In an interview with Fox News Digital on Thursday, Bolton said he had been “aware” of plots against him for “some time.”
IRANIAN OPERATIVE CHARGED IN ALLEGED PLOT TO ASSASSINATE JOHN BOLTON
Bolton said in the spring of 2020, the FBI contacted him with a “duty to warn.”
“I was given several duties to warn as time went on, and each one was becoming a little more serious,” Bolton said, noting that he went to a meeting at the FBI in the fall of 2021, where officials explained the latest information they had on plots against him.
FILE – In this Dec. 13, 2018 file photo, national security adviser John Bolton unveils the Trump Administration’s Africa Strategy at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
Bolton told Fox News he requested U.S. Secret Service protection, which he had during the Trump administration but which had been was terminated upon his resignation.
The FBI granted the request for USSS protection in December 2021, and Bolton told Fox News that protection is ongoing.
But Bolton said he is not so concerned about the individual plot against him, but rather, threats from Iran against all Americans.
“It is not just me,” Bolton said. “The regime in Tehran has targeted a lot of Americans.”
“The aim here is to kill Americans on American soil, and its former government officials,” Bolton explained. “This is a broad threat to private American citizens on American soil, and I think it is, essentially, unprecedented.”
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