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The agency has issued an alert regarding an Iranian official wanted in connection to a plot to assassinate current and former U.S. officials "in revenge"

The FBI is on a manhunt for an Iranian intelligence officer allegedly overseeing a plot to assassinate current and former federal government officials as revenge for the Trump administration's 2020 airstrike killing of an Iranian military official.

Last Friday, the agency's Miami field office issued an alert that Majid Dastjani Farahani "is wanted for questioning in connection with the recruitment of individuals for various operations in the United States." Those operations, the alert adds, include the assassinations of "current and former United States Government officials as revenge for the killing of IRGC-QF Commander Qasem Soleimani."

Major General Qassem Soleimani was the commander of Iran’s Quds Force, a specialized unit in the Revolutionary Guards, when he was killed in a drone strike at Baghdad International Airport as he was leaving by car in January 2020.

Related: Donald Trump Orders Airstrike Killing Qassem Soleimani the Head of Iran's Elite Military Force

Donald Trump — as president at the time — ordered the killing, with the Department of Defense saying in a statement at the time, "At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization."

“General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region,” the statement continued, adding that Soleimani and “his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more.

According to the FBI alert, Farahani is 41 years old, has brown and gray hair, brown eyes, and speaks Farsi, English, Spanish and French. He also "has ties to or may visit Iran and Venezuela," the agency adds.

The outlet Semafor reports that Farahani's plot specifically focuses on Trump-era officials, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Brian Hook, who worked as Trump’s special envoy for Iran. Citing unnamed U.S. officials, Semafor reports that both men are being provided with around-the-clock security due to the nature of the threat.

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The outlet Semafor reports that Farahani's plot specifically focuses on Trump-era officials, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Brian Hook

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Mark F. Giuliano, a career FBI official who was second-in-command at the law enforcement agency when it launched a controversial investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server as she sought the 2016 Democratic nomination for president, died March 2 at his home in Decatur, Ga. He was 62.

The cause was an apparent heart attack, said his sister Ann Britz.

In an FBI career that began in 1988 and spanned almost three decades, Mr. Giuliano started as a street agent in Washington pursuing violent crime and gangs. He later supervised high-profile criminal cases and the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted program.

As with many FBI agents, the focus of his work shifted significantly following the al-Qaeda terrorist attacks of 2001. The FBI put a larger emphasis on global security threats and, for a time, he worked in Afghanistan overseeing an FBI team supporting U.S. Special Forces.

Mr. Giuliano served as a senior FBI official in an era of ever-evolving terrorist threats — testifying to Congress on FBI missteps leading up to the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, and running day-to-day operations as the caseload of Americans suspected of trying to travel overseas to join ISIS or other terrorist groups exploded into the hundreds.

In a time when a terrorism case that started in the suburbs of Minneapolis could reach into far-flung corners of Somalia, Afghanistan or Iraq, Mr. Giuliano’s contemporaries credited him with integrating the FBI’s work with more secretive U.S. intelligence agencies.

In 2012, after years in senior roles at FBI headquarters, Mr. Giuliano was made the top FBI agent in Atlanta before Director James B. Comey called him back to Washington the next year to help run the bureau as deputy director.

In 2015, Mr. Giuliano and Comey opened what would become one of the most consequential investigations in FBI history — the probe into Clinton, the former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state, over classified information found on a private, nongovernment email server.

Mr. Giuliano and FBI executives opened the case based on a referral from an inspector general — setting off an unpredictable chain of events that consumed the upcoming presidential race.

Clinton’s emails, in which some State Department message chains forwarded to her discussed classified material such as drone strikes in Pakistan, alarmed national security officials as possible criminal violations.

The FBI’s handling of the case had an outsize impact on the 2016 presidential election, though those events occurred after Mr. Giuliano retired in early 2016, having already stayed longer than he had planned in a high-stress job that tends to have frequent turnover.

In July 2016, Comey announced he was closing the case, though he did so in a public news conference describing in detail Clinton’s misdeeds. Then, two weeks before the election, Comey sent a letter to Congress announcing he was reopening the investigation based on new evidence that had come to light — some of her emails found on the laptop of a disgraced former congressman, Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of a top Clinton aide.

Clinton later blamed Comey and the FBI for her defeat.

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MAN DOWN

Soon after he was tapped to help save the planet, U.S. special climate envoy John F. Kerry found himself on another planet entirely.

It was April 2021, during the depths of the coronavirus pandemic, and Kerry had flown to Shanghai to meet with his Chinese counterparts. He was greeted on the tarmac by dozens of people in hazmat suits who resembled astronauts wearing “moon suits,” Kerry recalled in a recent interview with The Washington Post.

“They were completely antiseptically sealed from us,” he said. “It was like going into some weird otherworld.”

Those early talks with Chinese climate diplomats — who sat at the opposite end of a long table from Kerry and his staff — paved the way for a key agreement last year. As part of the deal, Beijing agreed to collaborate with Washington on reducing planet-heating methane emissions and transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

Analysts say the U.S.-China deal helped clinch a historic outcome at last year’s U.N. Climate Change Conference in Dubai. There, negotiators from nearly 200 countries agreed for the first time to phase out fossil fuels, the main cause of rising temperatures that have wrought devastation across the globe.

Now, Kerry, who turned 80 in Dubai, is stepping down from his post after more than 40 years of public service, including as a senator from Massachusetts and secretary of state during the Obama administration. His last day in the role will be Wednesday. President Biden has tapped senior adviser John D. Podesta to replace Kerry, although Podesta will be based at the White House rather than the State Department.

The move marks the end of an era in climate diplomacy. Kerry, at 6-foot-4, has literally and figuratively towered over global climate talks. He was seemingly omnipresent at the 2022 talks in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, before he contracted the coronavirus and was sidelined to his hotel room during the final days of negotiations.

Kerry has drawn on “unbelievable reserves of energy” at the U.N. climate talks, where bleary-eyed negotiators run on just a few hours of sleep, said Sue Biniaz, the U.S. deputy special climate envoy.

“Even when the rest of us were ready to give up on things, he would always want to keep trying,” Biniaz said. “He would sometimes lapse into ‘the sky is falling,’ but then that would propel him to do more, and then he would get optimistic again.”

Jennifer Morgan, the German climate envoy, agreed. “When I think of him, I think of a tireless energy, like an Energizer bunny,” she said of Kerry.

Mohamed Adow, the director of the Nairobi-based environmental think tank Power Shift Africa, credited Kerry with “bringing some sanity back to the climate discourse” after the Trump administration withdrew the United States from the Paris agreement. But he criticized Kerry and Congress for not fulfilling President Biden’s pledge to provide more than $11 billion annually in international climate aid.

“However you want to think of John Kerry, he hasn’t delivered the serious gains to those of us on the front lines of the climate crisis,” Adow said.

Because of his regular travels, Kerry spends little time at his State Department office, which is sparsely decorated, with the exception of a helmet emblazoned with “SPEC” — an acronym for “special presidential envoy for climate” — that he wears when riding electric scooters around Washington.

It was there The Post sat down with Kerry last month to discuss his legacy, the 2024 election and the future of global efforts to stave off a climate catastrophe.

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>John D. Podesta to replace Kerry

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