To me this sounds a bit Libyan Hit Squad-ish.
40 years ago Manucher Ghorbanifar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manucher_Ghorbanifar invented the Libyan Hit Squad "intelligence" and washed it through Michael Ledeen, who as a pair were pretty much responsible for all the stupid shit Republicans did from 1980 until Gulf War II: The Gulfening.
So part of me thinks this is a Ledeen / Ghorbanifar op cuz they have done this exact shit before.
https://nypost.com/2024/03/04/us-news/f ... officials/NY Post does not have a paywall so there is the original.
Other accounts I read focused on them targeting Bolton (to be fair, if I were SAVAMA or Quods I would target Bolton too..makes sense since you never know who will be dumb enough to hire him again)
Pompeo....No one would notice. There is always a "Pompeo" out there for American politicians to choose. In fact it might be more destabilizing to leave him alive.
Trump. Same thing. Every US adversary should want Trump. Intel will be like those cartoon mice living inside of a giant swiss cheese with the swiss cheese being every US and NATO intelligence and military institution. In fact if Iran sent a hit squad to kill Trump the Russians and the Norks would probably send a Hit Squad to the US to kill the Iranian one.
If this story is true, Trump is probably safer than he was before the hitman crossed the border.