FBI将伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队成员 Poursafi 列入头号恐怖分子通缉名单 悬赏最高2000万美元

美国联邦调查局(FBI)华盛顿外勤办公室11月10日宣布,已把伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队成员 Shahram Poursafi 列入头号恐怖分子通缉名单,并同时发布针对其三名同伙的寻线海报。FBI 表示,Poursafi 被指在2021年10月至2022年4月期间,出钱雇人谋杀两名美国前政府官员。
据法庭文件,Poursafi 又名 Mehdi Rezayi,被指代表伊斯兰革命卫队圣城旅,试图以30万美元雇美国境内人员行凶,动机据信是为2020年1月圣城旅指挥官 Qasem Soleimani 之死报复。2022年8月的一份起诉书指控他利用州际商业设施策划雇凶杀人,并提供及企图提供对跨国谋杀阴谋的实质支持。FBI 华盛顿外勤办公室反恐处负责人 Gregory Heeb 表示,FBI 不会容忍伊斯兰革命卫队在其境内威胁异见人士、记者与公职人员,希望海报带来的关注能帮助瓦解致命阴谋。
FBI 同时发布的寻线海报涉及三名据称是圣城旅官员的人:Mohammad Reza Ansari、Abolfazl Alizadeh 与 Mohammad Hossein Shamoradizadeh。FBI 说,圣城旅下属的 840 部队负责策划致命行动,Ansari 是该部队的一名副手,曾支持圣城旅在叙利亚的行动,并据指与 Poursafi 一起策划和企图暗杀上述两名美国前官员。2023年6月,美国财政部外国资产控制办公室已把 Ansari 与 Poursafi 列入制裁名单,理由是他们为圣城旅效力。
美国国务院正义奖赏计划为提供线索、促成 Poursafi 被逮捕并定罪的人提供最高2000万美元奖金。FBI 呼吁掌握上述四人信息的人拨打 1-800-CALL-FBI 或通过其线索网站举报。上述指控目前仍属指控,当事人未经定罪前被推定无罪。
FBI Adds IRGC Member Shahram Poursafi to Most Wanted Terrorists List, With a Reward of Up to $20 Million
The FBI Washington Field Office announced on November 10 that it had added Shahram Poursafi, a member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, to the Most Wanted Terrorists list and released seeking-information posters on three of his associates. The FBI said that from October 2021 to April 2022, Poursafi allegedly solicited the murder of two former U.S. government officials.
According to court documents, Poursafi, also known as Mehdi Rezayi, allegedly worked on behalf of the IRGC-Quds Force and sought to pay individuals in the United States $300,000 to commit the murders, likely in retaliation for the January 2020 death of Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani. A complaint filed in August 2022 charged him with using interstate commerce facilities in the commission of a murder-for-hire and with providing and attempting to provide material support to a transnational murder plot. Gregory Heeb, the special agent in charge of the Washington Field Office's Counterterrorism Division, said the FBI will not stand for the IRGC's brazen attempts to silence, harm or murder activists, dissidents, journalists and public officials, and hopes the posters will help disrupt lethal plots.
The three seeking-information posters name alleged Quds Force officials Mohammad Reza Ansari, Abolfazl Alizadeh and Mohammad Hossein Shamoradizadeh. The FBI said the Quds Force's Unit 840 is responsible for developing lethal plotting operations, that Ansari is a Unit 840 deputy who supported Quds Force operations in Syria, and that, with Poursafi's support, he allegedly planned and attempted to assassinate the same two former U.S. officials. In June 2023, the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control designated both Ansari and Poursafi for acting on behalf of the Quds Force.
The U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice program is offering up to $20 million for information leading to Poursafi's arrest and conviction, and the FBI asks anyone with information on the four men to call 1-800-CALL-FBI or submit a tip online. The charges described are allegations, and Poursafi is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
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