The US Department of Justice has charged a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to hire a contract killer to assassinate John Bolton, one of the six people to serve as National Security Advisor during the Trump Administration, CNN reports.

Apparently acting in retaliation for the January 2020 assassination of  Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Revolutionary Guard who was reportedly in charge of Iran’s foreign relations with terrorist groups.  Soleimani was killed in a US drone attack while on a diplomatic mission to Iraq, and his assassination raised tensions in the region, prompting Iran to launch a series of missile attacks against the Baghdad Green Zone, injuring dozens of US service members.  After initially claiming there were no casualties from the retaliatory attacks, Donald Trump claimed that a handful of wounded personnel had suffered “headaches.”  That assessment was updated weeks later by the Pentagon, who said more than 50 individuals suffered traumatic brain injuries and at least two had been injured when they were blown out of a watch tower from a blast.

According to the indictment, 45-year-old Shahram Poursafi had contacted individuals in the United States, offering $400,000 to someone for the assassination of Bolton, who was the National Security Advisor at the time of the attack.  The person Poursafi contacted was a “confidential human source” for the FBI.  Poursafi is not in custody and is believed to be in Iran.