Houston FBI, DEA agents foil terror plot; Texas resident among 2 charged

Feds Foil Own Saudi Assassination Plot: Pin it on Iran
Federal entrapment snares another dupe and brings hundreds of millions to the brink of war
“…it would be far more preferable if the United States could cite an Iranian provocation as justification for the airstrikes before launching them. Clearly, the more outrageous, the more deadly, and the more unprovoked the Iranian action, the better off the United States would be. Of course, it would be very difficult for the United States to goad Iran into such a provocation without the rest of the world recognizing this game, which would then undermine it. (One method that would have some possibility of success would be to ratchet up covert regime change efforts in the hope that Tehran would retaliate overtly, or even semi-overtly, which could then be portrayed as an unprovoked act of Iranian aggression.)This suggests that this option might benefit from being held in abeyance until such time as the Iranians made an appropriately provocative move, as they do from time to time. In that case, it would be less a determined policy to employ airstrikes and instead more of an opportunistic hope that Iran would provide the United States with the kind of provocation that would justify airstrikes. However, that would mean that the use of airstrikes could not be the primary U.S. policy toward Iran (even if it were Washington’s fervent preference), but merely an ancillary contingency to another option that would be the primary policy unless and until Iran provided the necessary pretext.” -page 84-85 of ”Which Path to Persia?“ Brookings Institution, 2009.
Apparently, manufacturing such a “necessary pretext” to unilaterally bomb a nation of 70 million is now also a part of US foreign policy toward Iran. An oafish fabrication announced this week by Attorney General Eric Holder, consisted of an Iranian-American used-car salesman that “allegedly” attempted to hire an undercover US DEA agent, posing as a Mexican Los Zetas gangster, to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would add “nobody could make that up, right?” Wrong.
The Fortune 500-funded US policy think-tank, Brookings Institution, in 2009 made it quite clear that the US would pursue its interests across the Middle East and would not tolerate a strong, assertive Iran standing in the way. Brookings would acknowledge in their report, however, that Iran sought neither to confront the United States militarily, nor desired to provoke the West into attacking the Islamic Republic, and even declared that Iran’s nuclear threat was more the deterrence it would present toward future US acts of aggression rather than hyped claims of proliferation or unilateral first-strikes.Many of the enumerated options explored in the Brookings report for destabilizing and overthrowing the Iranian government had already been in the process of being carried out even before the report was published in 2009. This included funding, arming, and training US State Department-listed foreign terrorist organization (#28 on the list), Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK.) To date, covert support, weapons and funding have already made it into MEK’s hands, and select members of the terrorist organization have even received specialized training on US soil. US policy makers, after admitting MEK had the blood of US soldiers and civilians on its hands and that it has “undeniably” conducted terrorist attacks, shockingly wants
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King Labels Iran Terror Plot “Act of War”
Republican Congressman says Obama should have troops on standby for military response
Republican Congressman Peter King told CNBC’s Larry Kudlow that he regarded the dubious Iranian terror plot as an “act of war” and that President Obama should put the military on standby in response“They’ve not just crossed the red line, they’ve jumped over the red line, and this to me is an act of war,” said the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, adding that a military response should be kept on the table as an option “to let Iran know how seriously we take this,” as well as other “bad state actors”.
King called for new sanctions to be applied as well as advocating economic warfare by causing the Iranian central bank to collapse. Ludicrously, he also called on Obama to slap sanctions on the sale of Iranian crude oil, a move that would send gas prices soaring for American citizens, fruther cripple the global economy, while also possibly laying the foundation for world war three.King nonchalantely implied that other middle eastern nations, including Saudi Arabia, could be threatened to fill the gap, “because they realize their survival is on the line here.”Starting a new global energy crisis and potentially a massive global conflict in response to a fabricated terror plot that many would consider too far-fetched for a Hollywood movie script are not enough for King however, he also called for all Iranian diplomats to be expelled from the UN, claiming most of them were spies and suggesting Iran wanted to blow up the New York subway system.King also agreed with Kudlow that the U.S. military should set in process a series of aggressive military manouvers to strike fear into Iran.Of course, neo-con King’s belligerant call for Obama to set in motion world war three is made to look all the more ridiculous by the fact that the already dubious Iranian terror plot is now starting to look less credible than a children’s fairytale story.As we reported earlier, the legal documents from the case clearly indicate how the alleged plot to assassinate a Saudi ambassador was wholly the creation of the DEA informant working to entrap accused patsy Mansour J. Arbabsiar on behalf of the FBI.21-year CIA veteran Robert Baer called the alleged plot as “a truly awful Hollywood script,” noting how Iran’s highly professional Quds Force would never hire an alcoholic, pot smoking, prostitute using used car salesman to carry out a high profile political assassination

Robert Baer: Iranian Plot Is a Bad Hollywood Script
Washington Bombing Plot Is Out of Character for Iran’s Professional Killers
Just when you think the Middle Easy couldn’t get any weirder, along comes an Iranian plot to assassinate the ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Washington. The plot has was described by FBI Director Robert Muller as plucked right out of a Hollywood script — if so, it would be a truly awful Hollywood script. None of it measures up to Iran’s unsurpassed skill in conducting assassinations. As for motives, there are no convincing ones.
According to the Department of Justice indictment, an Iranian-American used-car salesman attempted to recruit a Mexican drug cartel to carry out the hit. Other parts of the plan included bombing the Israeli embassy in Washington, as well as the Israeli and Saudi embassies in Argentina. The Iranian was willing to pay the cartel assassins $1.5 million to murder the Saudi ambassador. But the plot came undone when the man representing himself as a cartel operative turned out to be a paid informant of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The Iranian, who confessed after his arrest, is now behind bars. The other man in the plot, a member of the Quds Force, a secretive special forces unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, remains at large.(Read “Did Iran Hire Narcos as Assassins?”)
Before examining these claims, it’s helpful to remember what we know about the Iranian unit implicated in the indictment: The Quds Force was responsible for the truck bombing the Marine barracks in Beirut. It was behind most of the kidnappings in Lebanon in the 1980s, including that of CIA station chief Bill Buckley. It organized the 1992 and1994 bombings of the Israeli embassy and cultural centers in Buenos Aires, as well as Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia. And most recently, it undoubtedly was behind the execution of five American soldiers in Karbala, Iraq in 2007. In other words, the Quds Force has been happy to target the United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia. But why so sloppy in this plot when their track record so clearly reflects a deadly professionalism?In its 30-year history of attacking the West, the Quds Force went out of its way never to be caught with a smoking gun in hand. It always used well-vetted proxies, invariably Muslim believers devoted to Khomeini’s revolution. And when the operation was particularly sensitive, they gave the job to Lebanon’s militant Shi’ite Hizballah, organization the Iranians themselves had founded and which has an unsurpassed record in political murder. Hizballah has cells all over the world, including in the United States. But the point of it all was that if caught — and they were, more than once — Iran still enjoyed plausible deniability, a commodity in this business worth its weight in gold. So, if this plot was genuine, why didn’t the Iranians use tried and tested Hizballah networks and keep Iranian nationals, much less unknown Mexican narcos, out of it?

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