The Ministry’s spokesman Nasser Kanaani told reporters on Wednesday that “the spinning of these threadbare and baseless myths is becoming a recurring custom in the American judicial and propaganda system.”
He insisted that “such baseless claims are made with political motives and aims and in fact amount to […] escaping the responsibility of responding to numerous terrorist crimes that the American government has either directly participated in, such as the cowardly assassination of General Martyr Soleimani, or like the terrorist crimes committed by the Zionist regime and terrorist groups like Daesh* with the support of America.”
In an announcement on Wednesday, the US Department of Justice argued that Poursafi, aka Mehdi Rezayi, 45, had "attempted to pay individuals in the United States $300,000 to carry out the murder [of Bolton] in Washington DC or Maryland.”