The U.S. Department of State has informed Congress through a confidential and non-public memo that the Iranian regime is actively plotting to assassinate two senior officials of the Donald Trump administration, including Mike Pompeo, the former U.S. Secretary of State, according to a new report by Washington Free Beacon.
The publication, emphasizing that it had seen the State Department’s confidential memo, added that this memo was sent to Congressional leaders last week.
According to the Washington Free Beacon report, the memo given to Congressional leaders states that Pompeo and Brian Hook, the former U.S. Special Representative for Iran, continue to face “serious and credible” threats from a foreign nation.
This memo was presented to Congressional leaders amid intense competition in the U.S. presidential elections, and at a time when numerous reports have emerged regarding the Iranian regime’s efforts to assassinate Donald Trump.
As reported by the Washington Free Beacon, Tehran’s assassination plots first surfaced in January 2022, when the publication reported that Congress was informed of threats against Brian Hook’s life. Shortly after, it became apparent that Pompeo was also a target due to his role in isolating the Iranian regime during his tenure as Secretary of State.
The Washington Free Beacon further stated that since January 2021, this is the twentieth time that Congress has been informed of credible threats against Brian Hook, a key architect of the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign on the Iranian regime. According to the Beacon, Congress has also been notified 17 times of similar threats against Mike Pompeo.
Mike Pompeo, Brian Hook, and John Bolton, the former National Security Advisor to the White House, are all under U.S. government protection due to these threats.
In May, the FBI announced that it was actively pursuing an Iranian regime intelligence agent planning to assassinate Pompeo and other American officials. This individual, identified as Majid Dastjiani Farahani, is reportedly recruiting individuals for operations in the United States, including the targeted assassination of current and former U.S. government officials.
In September, Matthew Olsen, the U.S. Assistant Attorney General, told Politico: The Iranian government has made it clear that it is determined to avenge the death of Qassem Soleimani against former officials involved in his killing.
The Washington Free Beacon then noted remarks by Hossein Mousavian, a former member of the Iranian regime’s nuclear negotiation team who now works as a Middle East security and nuclear policy expert at Princeton University. In a documentary produced by the IRGC in 2022, Mousavian promoted threats against Brian Hook, the U.S. Special Representative for Iran.
In the 72-hour documentary, Mousavian stated: “I went to America, and an American told me that Brian Hook’s wife cannot sleep. She cries and trembles. She told Brian: They will kill you. Hook is complicit in Haj Qassem’s death, and that is why they are so afraid and trembling.” Qassem Soleimani was the head of the terrorist IRGC Quds Force. He was eliminated in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq in January 2020.
