Iran Plots to Murder John Bolton, Yet Biden’s Handlers Won’t Indict the Suspects

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The Iranian mullahs are nothing if not vindictive: the Washington Examiner revealed Monday that “at least two Iranians belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards’ covert-action Quds Force have been plotting to assassinate former national security adviser John Bolton, according to a Justice Department official with direct knowledge of the investigation.” Yes, John Bolton, who flounced out of the Trump administration in a righteous rage in 2019 and hasn’t been in a position of power or influence since. And yes, now, even as Biden’s handlers are prepared to give the Iranian regime everything it wants and more in Vienna, in a new nuke deal. And that’s why those who are responsible for this plot are not being called out: the Biden administration doesn’t want to do anything to offend the Iranians and prevent the nuke deal from being sealed. Yes, really.

The Examiner reported that the Justice Department “possesses indictable evidence against the Iranians,” but nothing is going to happen, because “Biden administration officials are resisting publicly indicting the men for fear that it could derail their drive for a nuclear deal with Iran, currently nearing completion in negotiations in Vienna, Austria.”

The DoJ has almost certainly not moved on this: “It is possible but unlikely that there are sealed indictments against the men, but the DOJ source said the seriousness of the conspiracy and the evidence warranted public indictment without delay. Sealed indictments would be unusual and probably unnecessary in this case, as they are usually used to prevent the target evading justice. The Quds Force is fully aware of U.S. law enforcement and intelligence attention toward it, so its members are unlikely to put themselves in a position to be arrested with or without a sealed indictment.”

Somewhat irritably, the Justice Department denied that it wasn’t indicting those responsible because of the new nuke deal, saying that “it would be categorically false to claim that these kinds of policy considerations would drive such a charging decision.” Well, sure: in a sane, America-First administration, the deal would be off as soon as Iran started plotting to assassinate an American official.

But this is the Biden administration we’re talking about, and it’s not at all outside the realm of possibility that Biden’s handlers would be avid to pursue the nuclear agreement above all other considerations. They have already been making concession after concession, as Russian negotiator Mikhail Ulyanov revealed when he said admiringly that “Iranian clerics are fighting for Iranian nuclear – uh, national interests like lions. Indeed, I’m very serious. They fight for every comma, every word, and as a rule quite successfully. I must recognize that. … I am absolutely sincere in this regard when I say Iran got much more than it could expect. Much more. Realistically speaking, Iran got more than, frankly, I expected, others expected. This is a matter of fact.”

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