Patrick Cockburn: Bizarre plot goes against all that is known of Iran’s intelligence service

Patrick Cockburn
The Independent

October 13, 2011

The claim that Iran employed a used-car salesman with a conviction for cheque fraud to hire Mexican gangsters to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington goes against all that is known of Iran’s highly sophisticated intelligence service.

The confident announcement of this bizarre plot by the US Attorney General Eric Holder sounds alarmingly similar to Secretary of State Colin Powell’s notorious claim before the UN in 2003 that the US possessed irrefutable evidence Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction.

The problem is that the US government has very publicly committed itself to a version of events, however unlikely, that, if true, would be a case for war against Iran. It will be difficult for the US to back away from such allegations now.

Could the accusations be true? The plot as described in court was puerile, easy to discover and unlikely to succeed. A Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) informant in Corpus Christi, Texas, with supposed links to Los Zetas gangsters in Mexico, said he had been approached by an Iranian friend of his aunt called Mansour Arbabsiar to hire the Zetas to make attacks. A link is established with the Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).

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  1. As usual, they don’t give a damn whether their story holds any water, they’re just going to give a crappy pretense to push their garbage through and keep lying the whole time, just as they’ve been doing the past several years.
    Why the hell do you think we invaded the two countries on either side of Iran in the first place? This was all planned out long ago, and God help us, it’s doubtful we can stop the momentum now. You think Iraq was a cluster fuck? That was a walk in the park compared to Iran.

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