The FBI has stepped up its hunt for Iranian agents who allegedly targeted current and former American officials as revenge for an Iranian general’s murder, with an appeal for any information on their whereabouts as the cost of protecting those officials continues to climb.
“Iranian intel officer Majid Dastjani Farahani is wanted for questioning regarding the recruitment of individuals for operations in the U.S., to include lethal targeting of current/former USG officials,” the FBI Miami office wrote in a post on social media platform X.
The FBI claimed Farahani targeted U.S. government officials who were involved in the killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani, which served as the focus for Farahni’s recruitment activities. He allegedly recruited individuals with connections to religious sites, businesses and “other facilities” in the U.S.
“Farahani acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security,” the FBI wrote on its website.
Iran has repeatedly threatened to take revenge for Soleimani’s killing, just one year ago promising that, “God willing, we are looking to kill Trump [and] Pompeo … and military commanders who issued the order should be killed.”
Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Forces, was killed in a Jan. 3, 2020 U.S. strike in Baghdad days after Iranian-backed militia supporters stormed the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.
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