Iran has stepped up efforts to kidnap and kill government officials, activists and journalists around the world, including in the US.
The Washington Post reveals this, citing some sources, according to which former US government officials, expatriate dissidents but also media critics of the regime and Jewish civilians or civilians linked to Israel have ended up in the crosshairs.
"The intensity of the campaign is reflected in the global reach," writes the WP, noting how attempts to assassinate former US National Security Advisor John Bolton in Washington and French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy in Washington were thwarted last year. Paris.
The Iranian campaign to kidnap and kill abroad appears to be motivated by various factors.
Bernard-Henri Lévy, for example,
he ended up in the crosshairs of the Quds Force probably because he was an intellectual critical of the country's leadership.
According to the Washington Post, Revolutionary Guards Special Forces had hired an Iranian drug trafficker and paid him $150,000 to help recruit more people to kill the French intellectual.
According to experts, the desire to kill American citizens is also driven by a thirst for revenge for the killing of Qasem Soleimani in 2020. Of the 124 Iranian plots to strike abroad since 1979, says former US counter-terrorism official Matthew Levine, as many as 36 occurred after the killing of Soleimani.
Revolutionary Guards Special Forces had hired an Iranian drug trafficker and paid him $150,000 to help recruit more people to kill the French intellectual.
According to experts, the desire to kill American citizens is also driven by a thirst for revenge for the killing of Qasem Soleimani in 2020. Of the 124 Iranian plots to strike abroad since 1979, says former US counter-terrorism official Matthew Levine, as many as 36 occurred after the killing of Soleimani.
Revolutionary Guards Special Forces had hired an Iranian drug trafficker and paid him $150,000 to help recruit more people to kill the French intellectual.
According to experts, the desire to kill American citizens is also driven by a thirst for revenge for the killing of Qasem Soleimani in 2020. Of the 124 Iranian plots to strike abroad since 1979, says former US counter-terrorism official Matthew Levine, as many as 36 occurred after the killing of Soleimani.
Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron praised "the Iranians who took to the streets for months after the death of a young woman" expressing "their respect for the Iranian people, especially for the women and young people who are bravely protesting to get the freedom to exercise one's rights and fundamental freedoms, which Iran itself has subscribed to and is violating".
This can be read in a joint statement at the end of the meeting in the White House between the two presidents.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian has canceled his trip to Italy, where he was supposed to participate in Med Dialogues.
The minister has "more important commitments in Tehran on his agenda," a source at the foreign ministry told Iran's Irna news agency.
