{"id":26961,"date":"2011-10-12T06:37:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T10:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26961"},"modified":"2011-10-12T08:08:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T12:08:47","slug":"iran-plots-assassination-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26961","title":{"rendered":"Iran plots assassination in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/alleged-plot-is-uncharacteristically-bold\/2011\/10\/11\/gIQA7vzpdL_story.html?hpid=z1\">Washington Pos<\/a>t, the Obama Administration has foiled a bold plan by the Iranian government to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US while he is in Washington, DC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama administration on Tuesday directly accused Iran and its elite Quds Force of backing the alleged attempt to kill Saudi Arabia\u2019s ambassador to the United States, Adel al-Jubeir, using hit men from a Mexican drug gang. The allegation plunged U.S.-Iranian relations into crisis and sent U.S. officials scrambling in search of new punitive measures to impose against a country that has already been hit with multiple rounds of sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The brazenness of the plot outlined by Justice Department officials struck many current and former U.S. officials as out of character for Iran, which has rarely, if ever, been so bold as to strike targets in America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously? No one expected Iran to commit crimes on US soil? You mean because our policy towards them has been so toothless and ineffective? They should be scared because no one holds Iran accountable for their rogue behavior? They kidnap British sailors, American hikers and anyone else they feel like kidnapping and their punishment is millions in ransom money. I&#8217;m sure the iranians are shaking in their boots with anticipation of the strongly-worded letter they&#8217;re about to receive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDED:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/10\/11\/alleged-plot-to-kill-saudi-ambassador-drives-us-push-to-isolate-iran\/\">Fox News<\/a> is reporting that the plot also involved the Mexican drug cartels;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. officials say the suspects in the case were working on a &#8220;murder for hire&#8221; scheme to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States using explosives. They allegedly reached out to a U.S. source in Mexico posing as a drug cartel representative. Arbabsiar allegedly tried to hire the source and his accomplices to carry out the attack.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The two most direct threats to our national security which we&#8217;ve virtually ignored for decades involved in a plot together. WHo would have ever thought? Not this administration, that&#8217;s for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Washington Post, the Obama Administration has foiled a bold plan by the Iranian &hellip; <a title=\"Iran plots assassination in DC\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26961\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iran plots assassination in DC<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-foreign-policy","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}