Related: U.S. Government Uses Texas Used Car Salesman to Sell Terror Plot
Turns out the Mossad gave the Texas car salesman his paperwork, and that the other suspect is a member of MKO, the CIA/Mossad front group for regime change and that worked with Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the 1980-88 war. No wonder Iranians of all stripes don't like them.
Oh, yeah, US is harboring them as it prepares a false flag and war on Iran.
"US officials discuss Iran plot response" October 17, 2011|By Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg News
WASHINGTON - Military force should not be ruled out as a response to an Iranian assassination plot on US soil, Representative Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said yesterday.
“I don’t think you should take it off the table,’’ the Michigan Republican said on ABC’s “This Week.’’ Rogers said other options would include rallying the international community against Iran or taking action against Iranian operatives in Iraq.
In a separate interview yesterday, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who heads the Intelligence Committee, opposed a proposal by Jack Keane, a retired general and an architect of the troop surge in Iraq, that the United States engage in covert operations to kill members of Iran’s Quds Force.
We ALREADY DO, and if it is not our tools and assets it's Israel's or Britain's.
US officials are considering what action to take after the Justice Department’s Oct. 11 accusation that Iran sponsored a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States. The conspiracy involved the Quds, a secret Iranian military unit, and a citizen of the Islamic Republic with a US passport, officials said.
Oh, a "conspiracy," 'eh?
President Obama said last week that there were “direct links’’ to Iran’s government, which has rejected the allegation.
Am I ever sick of lying s***holes as presidents.
Two men were charged with conspiracy to use C-4 plastic explosives to kill Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir and attack Saudi installations in the United States. Targets included “foreign government facilities associated with Saudi Arabia and with another country,’’ US authorities said in a complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan.
Feinstein said she supports increased economic sanctions against Iran, especially against Iran’s Central Bank, with blacklists of any foreign country or company that does business with the Central Bank.
Without some discussions to force Iran to change its policies, “we are on a collision course,’’ she said on “Fox News Sunday.’’ “If we want to avoid it, we have to take action to avoid it.’’
In opposing a military action against the Quds Force, Feinstein said that, while Quds leaders were aware of the plot, there is no evidence that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is the highest ranking religious and political authority in the country, knew of it.
“It probably would escalate into a war, and the question is: Do we want to go to war with Iran at this time?’’ Feinstein said. “My judgment is no. We have our hands full with Iraq, with Afghanistan, with the deteriorating relationship with Pakistan.’’
Well, Israel and the AmeriKan look as if they feel quite different about the matter.
Khamenei warned the United States yesterday that any measures taken against Tehran over the accusations would elicit a “resolute’’ response.
Khamenei’s comments may reflect Iranian concerns that Washington would use the Jubeir case to ratchet up sanctions and recruit international allies to try to further isolate Tehran.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been blunt in saying the United States would use the allegations as leverage with other countries that have been reluctant to apply harsh sanctions or penalties against Iran.
Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, rejected the US allegations in a Tehran meeting yesterday.
“Each day they try to campaign against Iran,’’ Ahmadinejad said, according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency. Iran has asserted that the Obama administration made up the allegations to divert attention from unemployment, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and other economic problems.
Well, DIDN'T WORK!
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"Iran Accuses U.S. of Trying to Sow Regional Discord" by RICK GLADSTONE, October 17, 2011
Iran’s top leaders said Monday that the American accusation of an Iranian-hatched plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Washington was partly designed to sow discord between Iran and Saudi Arabia, in what appeared to be a new Iranian counterattack to the charges announced nearly a week ago. But the foreign minister of Iran said his government was at least willing to examine the evidence that the United States claims it has in the case.
Both Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, repeated their rejections of the American accusation, describing it as a ridiculous fiction invented by the Obama administration to divert attention from its other problems. But their argument that the United States was trying to drive a wedge between Iran and Saudi Arabia had not been made before.
No AmeriKan government would ever do that!
Ayatollah Khamenei said in a speech in the western Iranian city of Paveh that “the Sunni-Shia divide has always been a tool of the enemies of Islam,” Iranian news media reported....
I BELIEVE HIM!
See: Occupation Iraq: Divide and Conquer
Nigerian Sectarianism Stories Stink
Yes, I NO LONGER BUY SECTARIANISM as a cause of war from an agenda-pushing, war-promoting, elitist and supremacist, pos paper. Sorry.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Mr. Ahmadinejad expounded on the theme, saying the accusation was “fabricated by Washington to cause a rift between Tehran and Saudi Arabia.” Asked if there was any possible merit to the case, Mr. Ahmadinejad said, “We have categorically rejected this accusation.”
It was not immediately clear why they focused on Iranian-Saudi relations. Ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran have never been particularly friendly, partly because of the Shiite-Sunni schism in Islam.
Yuh-huh.
Saudi Arabia, a strong American ally, is overwhelmingly Sunni, while Iran is overwhelmingly Shiite.
In the accusation announced last Tuesday, which even some Obama administration officials acknowledge sounds like something from a Hollywood script, the Justice Department said Iranian officials had sought to hire hit men from a Mexican drug gang for $1.5 million to kill Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi ambassador to the United States.
That's because THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS -- a SCRIPT!!!!!!!!!!!
The Justice Department’s criminal complaint identified two defendants — Mansour J. Arbabsiar, a naturalized American citizen of Iranian descent from Corpus Christi, Tex., who has been taken into custody, and Gholam Shakuri, a member of the Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, who is at large and believed to be in Iran.
Remember that.
Projecting a slightly more flexible message than Iran’s ayatollah or president, the foreign minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, said Monday that Iran wanted to see what evidence the United States claims to have. He said in an interview with the official Islamic Republic News Agency that “Iran is ready to study the case patiently” and was “urging Washington to present any existing documents on the issue.”
Translation: they are calling our bluff.
Asked about Mr. Salehi’s remarks, a State Department spokesman, Mark Toner, told reporters in Washington that the United States had already “approached the Iranians on the matter directly and didn’t receive a very constructive response.”
Pffft!
That means the U.S. has nothing except phony or forged evidence as the State Department puke doesn't address the issue and points the finger back at Iran!!!
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Where is Shakuri?
"Iran says Saudi plot suspect is member of opposition group" by Rick Gladstone New York Times / October 19, 2011
Iran injected a new twist yesterday into the week-old U.S. accusation of an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington, asserting that one of the defendants really belongs to an outlawed and exiled opposition group.
The defendant, Gholam Shakuri, identified by the Justice Department as an operative of the elite Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, is actually a “key member’’ of the Muhajedeen-Khalq, Iran’s Mehr news agency reported.
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"Iran Says Saudi Plot Defendant Belongs to Exile Group" by RICK GLADSTONE, October 18, 2011
Iran injected a new twist on Tuesday into the week-old American accusation of an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington, asserting that one of the defendants really belongs to an outlawed and exiled opposition group.
The defendant, Gholam Shakuri, identified by the Justice Department as an operative of the elite Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, is actually a “key member” of the Mujahedeen Khalq, Iran’s Mehr News Agency reported.
The agency did not explain the group’s possible motive but left the implication that the plot was a bogus scheme meant to frame and ostracize Iran.
YUP -- like MOST "terror plots" that are (at root) INTELLIGENCE AGENCY OPERATIONS!!
Sorry to break this to you, Amurkn, but WESTERN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES CREATE, FUND, and DIRECT the "terrorists."
So WHEN IS a mushroom cloud going to appear over Chicago?
I can already see the AmeriKan media script: it was an Iranian bomb given to "Al-CIA-Duh."
Sorry, but NOT BUYING IT THIS TIME -- and NEVER AGAIN either so you can PUT THE THOUGHT OUT YOUR MIND, power elites!
And the SINKING of a U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER in the GULF WON'T WORK EITHER! We REMEMBER the U.S.S. Liberty!
It said Mr. Shakuri, who is at large, had last been seen in Washington and in Camp Ashraf, the group’s enclave in Iraq....
In other words, he is an AMERIKAN ASSET!!!!!!!!
American officials did not immediately comment on the Mehr report. Mark Toner, a State Department spokesman, reiterated the American view in a daily press briefing in Washington that “this was a serious breach of international law and that Iran needs to be held accountable.”
The CRAP that comes from the AmeriKan government is too much to stomach. What a band of incorrigible liars!!!!!!!!!!!!
The opposition group itself dismissed the Mehr report as nonsense. Shahin Gobadi, a spokesman, said in an e-mailed response that “this is a well-known tactic that has been used by the mullahs in the past 30 years where they blame their crimes on their opposition for double gains.”
Also the modus operandi for the USraeli empire.
The group, also known as the National Council of Resistance of Iran, is regarded by Iran as a violent insurgent organization with a history of assassinations and sabotage aimed at overthrowing the Islamic government that took power in 1979.
I think we found someone who is helping Israel kill of Iranian scientists.
While the group claims to have renounced violence a decade ago, it is still classified as a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department, but not by Britain or the European Union. It maintains a headquarters in Paris.
Mehr said it had learned what it called the new information about Mr. Shakuri from Interpol but was not more specific.
That's where Globe print ended (pffft).
Calls and e-mailed queries to Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France, were not immediately returned.
If Mr. Shakuri were in fact a member of the opposition group, it would be an embarrassing turn for the United States, which announced the suspected plot with some fanfare a week ago in a televised news conference by Attorney General Eric. H. Holder Jr., who said American investigators believed high officials in Iran’s government were responsible....
Yeah, having a PANTS FULL of SMELLY SHIT usually is EMBARRASSING!
American officials have acknowledged the suspected plot sounds hard to believe but asserted they have the evidence to back it up.
Then LET'S SEE IT!
Of course, this is NOT the FIRST TIME the U.S has claimed to have evidence and never shown it (bin Laden behind 9/11 is another example), nor do I suspect it will be the last.
Just THROW SHIT in the American peoples' face and see what sticks, right?
Saudi Arabia, apparently accepting the accusation as fact, has accused Iran of a “dastardly” scheme, and other American allies say they regard the accusation seriously.
Everyone knows the Saudis are an USraeli tool, and the third nation in the real axis of evil.
All of a sudden the Saudi system and terror look quite different.
Britain has gone farther than others, announcing on Tuesday it had ordered British banks to impound any assets of the two defendants as well as three other Iranian officials in the Quds Force suspected of running the plot.
Since Mr. Holder’s news conference, Iran has sought to counter the accusation with a mix of verbal counterattacks, accusing the Obama administration of concocting the plot to divert attention from other problems, conspiring with Israel to malign Iran and driving a wedge into Iran’s relationship with Saudi Arabia.
Yeah, that is pretty much the way I see it.
Notice Iran attacks even with words in my agenda-pushing, pos paper?
Iran scholars in the United States have said the suspected plot, while sounding far-fetched and amateurish, is not implausible. Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, said it could reflect an attempt by Iran’s security forces to retaliate for what they view as American-hatched plots carried out within Iran....
Like bombings, terror attacks, and assassinations?
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Another lemon: Today's Boston Globe
