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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 425

John Bolton

This handout image provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on August 10, 2022, shows the wanted poster of 45-year-old Shahram Poursafi. (FBI / AFP)
October 23, 2024, 4:04 am
Assassination plots in Israel recall Iran’s long history of hit attempts on US soil
George Washington University study lays bare the Islamic Republic’s ‘tragicomic’ alliances with criminal gangs to kill dissidents and US officials, including former president Trump
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Former national security adviser John Bolton gestures while speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, September 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
September 26, 2024, 9:35 pm
US sets $20 million reward for info on Iranian behind plot to assassinate John Bolton
State Department discovered in 2022 that IRGC member Shahram Poursafi had paid someone $300,000 to kill Trump’s former national security advisor
By AFP
File: Former US national security advisor John Bolton tals to journalists at the Global Taiwan National Affair Symposium XII in Taipei, Taiwan, April 29, 2023. (AP Photo/ Chiang Ying-ying)
June 2, 2023, 3:47 pm
US sanctions IRGC member over alleged plot to kill ex-Trump aide Bolton
Washington also targets other Iranians for suspected conspiracies to murder perceived threats against Tehran, which is seeking to avenge 2020 killing of top general
By FATIMA HUSSEIN, Matthew Lee, Ellen Knickmeyer and Eric Tucker
Illustrative: Posters of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in a US drone attack on January 3, 2020, are seen in front of Qiam, background left, Zolfaghar, top right, and Dezful missiles displayed in a missile capabilities exhibition by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard at Imam Khomeini grand mosque, in Tehran, Iran, January 7, 2022 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
August 19, 2022, 8:16 am
With nuclear deal tantalizingly close, Iran murder plots pose new hurdles for US
Critics say Iran can’t be trusted with billions in sanctions relief while still pushing to kill ex-US officials to avenge killing of Qassam Suleimani, or backing Rushdie attack
By Matthew Lee
Former National security adviser John Bolton gestures while speakings at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, September 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
August 11, 2022, 11:48 pm
Iran denies plot to assassinate former senior US official John Bolton
Tehran dismisses indictment of Revolutionary Guards member accused of offering to pay to kill the ex-national security adviser as ‘a new work of fiction’
By AFP
Former US national security adviser John Bolton speaks in Nashville, Tennessee, February 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
August 10, 2022, 8:34 pm
US charges Iranian Guards member with plot to murder ex-White House official Bolton
Operative reportedly offered $300,000 to ‘eliminate’ former US national security adviser, in presumed retaliation for US airstrike that killed top general Soleimani
By Eric Tucker, Zeke Miller and Isabel de Bre
National Security Adviser John Bolton speaks during a briefing at the White House in Washington, October 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
July 13, 2022, 9:53 am
US ex-official Bolton says he helped plan coups around the world
Ex-national security adviser doesn’t say which governments he worked to overthrow; makes comment while arguing Jan. 6 was not attack on democracy, ‘was Trump looking out for Trump’
By AFP
Sahrawi children from Western Sahara sit in their classroom in the Smara refugee camp near Tindouf, south-western Algeria, March 4, 2016. (AP/ Toukik Doudou).
December 16, 2020, 10:47 pm
In struggles for West Sahara and West Bank, thorny parallels may loom for Israel
Both places are claimed by one people and occupied by another. Could new US recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over one of the territories have impact on the status of the second?
By Raphael Ahren
Retired army colonel Douglas Macgregor appears on Fox News, January 8, 2020 (Screen grab)
November 14, 2020, 10:43 am
New Pentagon adviser said Pompeo, senior officials made rich by ‘Israeli lobby’
Douglas Macgregor, aide to new Def. Sec., claimed in 2019 that Bolton was ‘man on the ground’ for Israel lobby at White House, secretary of state ‘has his hands out for money’
By ToI Staff
US National Security Adviser John Bolton unveils the Trump administration's Africa Strategy at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, December 13, 2018. (Cliff Owen/AP)
July 21, 2020, 9:41 am
Bolton: Israel should act now in own security interests ahead of US election
In interview with Israeli radio station, former US national security adviser says Trump motivated by domestic audience, Kushner worried about Israeli unilateral annexation
By ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump, left, meets with South Korean President Moon Jae-In in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, as then-national security adviser John Bolton, right, watches, May 22, 2018. (Evan Vucci/AP)
July 3, 2020, 6:35 am
Bolton warns Israel that Trump could cozy up to Iran if he wins 2nd term
Former national security adviser to US president tells Israeli TV that his ex-boss could embrace Tehran in hopes of landmark deal, as he did with North Korea
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: American soldiers wait on the tarmac in Logar province, Afghanistan, November 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
June 30, 2020, 6:20 am
Sources: White House was aware of Russian bounty offers early in 2019
Assessment that Moscow encouraging killing of US troops in Afghanistan was included in at least one of Trump’s written daily intelligence briefings at the time
By JAMES LaPORTA
John Bolton speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition spring leadership meeting in Las Vegas, March 29, 2014. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
June 25, 2020, 9:12 am
As feud with Trump erupts, Bolton goes from pro-Israel hero to ‘John who?’
Jewish groups that used to laud the former national security adviser for his pro-Israel stance are not coming to his defense as he faces off against the US president
By Ron Kampeas
In this photo from, June 23, 2019 file photo, former US National Security Advisor John Bolton, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visit an old army outpost overlooking the Jordan Valley between the Israeli city of Beit Shean and the Palestinian city of Jericho. (AP Photo/Abir Sultan, File)
June 24, 2020, 2:23 am
4 Jewish takeaways from the John Bolton book Trump doesn’t want you to read
Buried in the nearly 290 pages are some surprising nuggets, telling us a little more about Trump and foreign policy than we knew
By Ron Kampeas
US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un talk before a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on June 30, 2019, in Panmunjom, Korea. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
June 22, 2020, 9:07 am
Bolton says North Korea’s Kim laughing at Trump
Ex-national security adviser with insider White House tell-all hopes history will remember Trump as a one-term president who didn’t plunge US ‘irretrievably into a downward spiral’
By AFP
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