An IRGC operative, Shahram Poursafi, was reportedly developing plans for a similar attack on former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in keeping with prior threats from Iranian officials upset over the 2020 drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, commander of the IRGC’s foreign special operations division, the Quds Force.

Bolton and Pompeo were only two of the dozens of American political and military figures sanctioned or otherwise labeled by the Iranian government as bearing responsibility for that killing. 

Source: IMFAT