A Staged Murder Conspiracy

The tracks of this failed attack lead to Washington, not Tehran.

After the choreographed “discovery” on Tuesday of an Iranian assassination plot against the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Washington, the U.S. government has further aggravated the situation. The State Department issued a travel warning to all Americans overseas and cautioned them to be extra vigilant. The warning says, “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.”

In reality, all participating U.S. agencies admit that there is no evidence that the government of Iran is in any way involved or complicit in the plot. The fact that nearly every mainstream media outlet in the West is reporting exactly the opposite is neither surprising nor, from the American point of view, undesirable. It’s the only way the U.S. can justify the new sanctions against Iran that were announced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She announced at a press conference that the U.S. would “work closely with our international partners to increase Iran’s isolation and the pressure on its government, and we call upon other nations to join us in condemning this threat to international peace and security.” She added that the plot “crosses a line that Iran needs to be held to account for.” She then triumphantly announced that this case would fortify the distrust many countries felt toward Iran.

This supposed assassination plot that justifies “punitive measures” against an entire nation was apparently another in a series of so-called sting operations that have been increasingly popular recently with the FBI, CIA and other American security agencies, all of which are designed to prove the dangers of “Muslim terrorists.” Using this plot, unstable individuals were systematically involved in fictitious conspiracies constructed by police and intelligence agencies. The conspiracies originated overwhelmingly in the imaginations and machinations of those agencies. They ranged from identifying assassination targets to providing explosives and weapons.

Testimony from arresting officers that there was never any real danger to the public because suspects were under constant observation from the beginning is a significant indication that this was just another sting operation. The individual arrested, Manssor Arbabsiar, is a U.S. citizen of Iranian origin. According to the indictment, he was recruited and paid by individuals he was led to believe were high-ranking officers of the Iranian Republican Guard. They instructed him to contact a Mexican drug cartel for the purpose of getting hired killers to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador in Washington. Following that, he was to have arranged for further attacks on the Israeli Embassies in the United States and Argentina.

How does a normal U.S. citizen go about contacting a Mexican drug cartel? That was obviously arranged by Arbabsiar’s employers: The Iranian just happened to stumble upon a Mexican go-between who turned out to be an informant employed by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. Those people are generally addicts and criminals who agree, under great pressure and threat, to cooperate with the authorities and are therefore ready to tell whatever lies they’re told to tell.

The indictment also names a second Iranian, Golam Shakuri, purported to be in Iran, as serving as an officer in the Revolutionary Guard. Whether he really had anything to do with the fictitious assassination plot or whether he even actually exists is unknown.