The Obama administration is offering us this Hollywood movie script. I do not believe a word of it. It makes no sense at all. Iranian officials agreeing on such a flimsy plot? Never. This is just another entrapment fantasy by the ignore-the-constitution organization of AG Holder.
The United States on Tuesday accused Iranian officials of plotting to murder Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States in a bizarre scheme involving an Iranian-American used-car salesman who believed he was hiring assassins from a Mexican drug cartel for $1.5 million.
The alleged plot also included plans to pay the cartel, Los Zetas, to bomb the Israeli Embassy in Washington and the Saudi and Israeli Embassies in Argentina, according to a law enforcement official.
The plotters also discussed a side deal between the Quds Force, part of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, and Los Zetas to funnel tons of opium from the Middle East to Mexico, the official said. The plans never progressed, though, because the two suspects — the Iranian-American and an Iranian Quds Force officer — unwittingly were dealing with an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration, officials said.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who announced the murder plot at a news conference in Washington, said it was “directed and approved by elements of the Iranian government and, specifically, senior members of the Quds Force.” He added that “high-up officials in those agencies, which is an integral part of the Iranian government, were responsible for this plot.”
Emptywheel looks at the the details the criminal complaint and also thinks this is utter bull****.
Soma reasons why this doesn't add up:
- The current political situation isn't bad for Iran. Why mess this up?
- The Los Zetas cartell is a business that hates to be disturbed by U.S. law enforcement. Why agree to such a deal which would make it a target for just $1.5 million when the real business makes billions. Iran knowns this and would not work with such a group.
- Iranian secret service using a phone call to the U.S. to talk about an assassination plot?
- Iranian secret service wiring money from a known Quds Force account to the U.S.?
- Why smuggle raw opium when you can easily make and smuggle the higher value product heroin?
I judge this to be an attempt to divert from #OccupyWallStreet and the general economic situation.
This does not mean that it is irrelevant. Some Congress folks and the Zionist lobby will certainly use this and try to incite war against Iran.