Antiwar.com: Alleged Iranian terror plot, fake

Antiwar.com in an article titled “Iranian Terror Plot: Fake, Fake, Fake”, written by Justin Raimondo, called the American scenario about Tehran’s plot to assassinate Saudi ambassador to Washington as “not even good propaganda”. Raimondo wrote in the article that the latest anti-Iran propaganda coming out of Washington claims that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were involved in a “plot” to take out the Saudi ambassador to the US and blow up both the Saudi and the Zionist regime embassies. He underlined that the narrative reads like a formulaic melodrama: two Iranians, one a naturalized US citizen, purportedly approached someone they thought was a member of a Mexican drug cartel – according to the indictment, it was a “sophisticated” drug cartel, not the plebeian sort – and proposed paying him dlrs 1.5 million to murder Adel al Jubeir, the Kingdom’s ambassador in Washington. The writer referred to the fake report by New York Times on the issue which says, “Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District, said in the news conference that no explosives were actually ever placed anywhere and no one was actually ever in any danger.\' and said this report means that “the whole thing is phony from beginning to end” and added that this is another one of US law enforcement’s manufactured “anti-terrorist” triumphs, where the feds set somebody up, fabricate a “crime” out of thin air, and then proceed to “solve” a case that never really existed to begin with. Then, Antiwar.com analyst raised the question that if the Iranians really were plotting to kill the Saudi ambassador on American soil, would they contract it out to the Mexican Mafia, send all kinds of traceable money wires from Iran to the US, and not care if they killed a hundred Americans in the process of achieving their goal? Or would they send some fanatic, who would not only do it for free but also eliminate himself (or herself)? “That our government would float a narrative like this without any apparent regard for the basic rules of fiction-writing – create believable characters who do believable things – is Washington’s way of showing contempt for the Iranians, the American people, and anyone else who stands in the way of their war agenda. They don’t care if it’s not believable,” he underscored. Raimondo noted that this story is very scary – not because it’s credible, or believable, because it is neither. He concluded that the Americans are already backing away from the assertion that the Iranian government is directly responsible for the actions of these two individuals, averring that top Iranian officials didn’t “necessarily” know what was going on. As the details of this case become known, Holder’s story is going to start unraveling like a substandard sweater.