Ewen MacAskill and Saeed Kamali Dehghan
London Guardian
Saudi Arabia has issued a menacing warning to Iran that it will have to pay a price for the alleged plot to hire a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate its ambassador in Washington.
The threat from the Saudis came as the Obama administration described the alleged plot as a “dangerous escalation” in the region.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said “clearly the plotting happened at senior levels of the Quds force [Iranian special forces]” but the administration resisted calls from within the US, mainly from the conservative right, to retaliate against Iran with military action.
On Wednesday night Carney said Barack Obama spoke to King Abdullah, the Saudi king, about the alleged plot and both agreed it was “a flagrant violation of international law”.
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So the jiffy-lubes’ order was for a standard combination pizza twice removed to place Iran in the contempt of those other royal pains in the arses we often refer to as the Pizza-the-Hutts.
Helping control your world in every propagation of spitefulness imaginable. It’s sort of like that roving band of evil children on Doc Martin. They serve no purpose other than a parochial model of follow the leader mind control cult subscription, i.e. intelligence community. Then all they have to do is wander around casting slurs and innuendos at peaceably minded and law abiding citizens everywhere–like heckling hyenas.
Tom Reply:
October 13th, 2011 at 2:04 pm
If you’d have spent half the effort killing politicians as you did writing that little cream puff piece, you’d have really accomplished something.
That’s it get the Saudis onboard for an attack on Iran.
tibet Reply:
October 13th, 2011 at 3:49 pm
Oh, please don’t throw me in that briar patch!
WHY DO YOU BELIEVE ISRAEL AND NEOCONS SEEK WAR WITH IRAN? Not the evidence, but the reason: for what is it they are seeking war with Iran?
It is because of the nuclear threat being mounted by Iran against Israel?
tibet Reply:
October 13th, 2011 at 3:50 pm
If it wasn’t the nuclear threat, it would be something else. This is one country they just can’t leave alone.
Oh, mercenaries! Mercenaries! US ARMY! MARINES! Please fight this war for us.
Like the Saudis are going to jump into a war with anyone themselves. Shesh!
Tom Reply:
October 13th, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Exactly. And if the Saudi’s are calling for Iran’s head, then you KNOW it’s not “kosher”. Sorry about the pun, not intended…
In other words we have found an excuse to open the doors through Saudi Arabia and attach Iran, Israhell,USA,and Saudis attacking at the same time. If i was The Iranian prime minister i would attack Israhell with everything i had RIGHT NOW.
Saudis talk a lot but will THEY attack Iran? No. They will have US attack Iran for them!
I am just sick of this TOTAL CRAP.
If the Saudis are really interested, they can attack, but Leave Us Out Of It!!!