TEHRAN – Iran on Friday derided the U.S. government’s fabricated story that an Iranian national plotted to assassinate former notorious U.S. national security advisor John Bolton, saying it will not help Washington whitewash its crimes.
“Fabricating stories around a politically bankrupt element, a known terrorist & a coup plotter against independent states, is a U.S. deceptive bid to escape from int’l responsibilities,” Kanaani wrote in a post on his Twitter account.
“Such fanfares won’t whitewash U.S. regime’s image, but makes Iranians & the world more resentful of it,” he added.
The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday charged a man identified as Shahram Poursafi with trying to arrange the killing of Bolton in retaliation for the U.S. assassination of Iran’s legendary anti-terror commander Lieutenant Gen. Qasem Soleimani in Iraq in January 2020.
Bolton has been a staunch supporter of the assassination of the top Iranian general. He also endorses the anti-Iran terrorist group, Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), which is infamous for fabricating scenarios in Europe and the U.S. to incriminate Iranian officials.
In the latest scenario, Poursafi has been cited as a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps who attempted to pay individuals in the United States in October 2021 a reward of $300,000 to carry out the plot in either Washington, DC, or Maryland.
In an earlier reaction, Kanaani said on Wednesday that “the spinning of these threadbare and baseless fictions is becoming a recurring custom in the American judicial and propaganda system”.
“Continuing their endless accusations against the Islamic Republic of Iran and their failed Iranophobic policy, the American judicial authorities, in a new yarn spinning, have raised accusations without providing valid evidence and necessary documentation,” he said.
“Such baseless claims are made with

political motives and aims and in fact amount to forward escape, creating propaganda ruse and especially 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, they have been committed with the support of America,” the Iranian spokesman added.
Kanaani also warned Washington against any action against Iranian citizens under the pretext of those “ridiculous” accusations, emphasizing that Tehran reserves the right to take any action within the framework of international law to defend the rights of its government and citizens.