From: Infowars
Kurt Nimmo
The Obama administration plans to use an unproven accusation leveled
against Iran to mount a new international sanctions campaign and
possibly attack the country.
On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced it had uncovered a plot by Iran to enlist a member of a Mexican drug cartel to kill Saudi Arabia's envoy in Washington, D.C. The FBI and the DEA uncovered the
plot, according to officials. The FBI has a long track record of using informers and agents provocateurs to entrap dupes who are then described as dangerous terrorists.
Manssor Arbabsiar, a naturalized U.S. citizen holding an Iranian
passport, allegedly arranged for the assassination by contacting a man
he thought worked for a Mexican drug cartel, but was in fact a DEA agent. Arbabsiar was arrested on September 29 at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
“The [first] meeting, which took place in May in Mexico, was the
first of a series that would result in an international conspiracy by
elements of the Iranian government to pay the informant $1.5 million to
murder the Ambassador on U.S. soil, according to documents we filed
today in court,” said Attorney General Eric Holder.
“According to the complaint, those discussions led Arbabsiar — with
Shakuri’s approval – to facilitate the wiring of approximately $100,000
into a bank account in the United States as a down payment for the
attempted assassination.”
Gholam Shakuri, described as Arbabsiar’s contact, has also been
charged in connection with the alleged plot but remains at large.
The plot was not Arbabsiar’s idea. It was suggested by the DEA
agent, who told Arbabsiar that he would need four men to carry out the
assassination and that his price was $1.5 million, according to Channel 6 News.
At the State Department, Hillary Clinton
praised what amounted to entrapment. “It was a terrific achievement by
our law enforcement and intelligence communities, and we will be
consulting with our friends and partners around the world about how we
can send a very strong message that this kind of action, which violates
international norms, must be ended,” she said.
The U.S. will now use the case to call for more severe sanctions against Iran. The current sanctions are considered weak and unlikely to stop Iran
from continuing its nuclear energy program. China, Russia, India and
Turkey have resisted more stringent sanctions that endanger business
deals with Iran.
In January, Israel’s military spy agency chief Brigadier General Aviv Kochavi
said the current sanctions are not working. Israel has been at the
forefront of the ongoing effort to use military force against Iran under
the pretext of preventing it from acquiring nuclear weapons.
The Council on Foreign Relations also considers sanctions imposed by
the United Nations ineffective. It said last July that if sanctions
fail the United States will have to look at using military force to stop
Iran’s nuclear program.
“If this sanctions-based strategy doesn’t compel Iran to the
negotiating table in a meaningful way, the United States and its allies
will need to look at the other options, which include military force,
containment, and fostering political change in Iran,” Meghan L. O’Sullivan of the CFR said in an interview.
At the 2010 Bilderberg meeting held in Spain, a consensus was reached
about attacking Iran. “Some of them in Europe are saying no we
shouldn’t do it but most of them are in favor of American air strikes on
Iran,” reported Bilderberg sleuth Jim Tucker, citing his inside sources. “They’re tilting heavily towards green lighting a U.S. attack on Iran.”
The next step is to take the allegation to the United Nations and
push for stronger sanctions, possibly including military action. “The
United States and Saudi Arabia and other allies are discussing the
possibility of taking this to the security council because this is an
assault on a foreign diplomat in the U.S.,” said an unnamed diplomat, Reuters reports today.
Additionally, the State Department has issued a worldwide travel
alert for U.S. citizens, warning of the potential for anti-U.S. action,
Reuters reports. “The U.S. government assesses that this Iranian-backed
plan to assassinate the Saudi ambassador may indicate a more aggressive
focus by the Iranian government on terrorist activity against diplomats
from certain countries, to include possible attacks in the United
States,” it said in a statement posted on its website.
