Iran Dismisses 'Stupid' U.S. Charge of Plot to Murder Saudi Envoy
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Iran's intelligence minister on Friday dismissed as "stupid" a U.S. charge that Tehran planned to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington.
Minister Heydar Moslehi, quoted by the state television website, pointed to the reasons he termed the alleged plot as "too mediocre to be believed."
"When you view the charges from an intelligence standpoint, there are too many contradictions to believe that a government like the United States can advance such mediocre allegations and expect them to be believable," he said.
The initial reaction of Iranian intelligence officials to the U.S. allegation was one of surprise at the profusion of idiocies involved, said the minister.
"I ask what intelligence service or what secret agent gives order by telephone to his agent who, moreover, lives in the land of the enemy (and who then) specifies several times on the telephone the place -- the restaurant -- where the so-called assassination is to take place and says that it would be better to have more deaths (in the restaurant) and during the attack to insult the restaurant's customers." the minister said.
Moslehi questioned the FBI's charge that an American-Iranian, Manssour Arbabsiar, had admitted after his arrest that he was involved in a plot to kill Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir and had been recruited by people he believed to be linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
The minister added: "From a technical viewpoint, one can ask why a Mexican drug cartel had to be used for such an operation? Moreover, why would such a cartel involve itself for only 1.5 million dollars when, according to the West, it earns tens of billions of dollars each year (from drugs)" and the operation would risk attracting the anger of the U.S.?
Pointing to what he saw as another flaw in the U.S. charges, he asked: "Why would the accused (Arbabsiar) involve himself in such a plot just eight months after receiving American nationality of which he was dreaming" after living in America for more than 20 years?
On Thursday a grand jury in New York indicted two Iranian men in the alleged plot to get Mexican gangsters to assassinate the Saudi ambassador, court papers showed.
Iran has rejected outright all the U.S. charges and its complaint to the UN Security Council, saying it is a U.S. plan to divide Muslim countries and divert attention from domestic problems.
Minister Moslehi termed the U.S. accusations "a bad quality comedy."
21 October 2011, 15:12
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The Criminal Iranian regime minions are out in force doing what they do best lie lie lie lie lie and when they are done they will even lie some more..... What credibility does a criminal regime like the Supreme Criminal's has? Khamenei knows he and his filthy murderous regime are now on the ropes, the extreme pressure that the regime is under will increase exponentially until the criminal regime's elements face the justice of the Free Iranians.... I'll leave it at that for now...
21 October 2011, 15:40
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21 October 2011, 17:36
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I say if they were really innocent, they would have stopped talking about it, the fact that a nut job gets up every morning and announce something new about the plot is, in my opnion, stemming from their fear of guilt. What truly is a bad comedy is the fact that the Iranian government is this stupid to think they could get away with the killing of a diplomat on foreign soil. The world must be rid of these criminals, Iran and its croonies must be held responsible.
