IRANIAN GOVERNMENT agents plotted to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US by hiring experts from Mexican drug cartels, the Obama administration has said.
Two people, including a member of Iran’s special operations unit known as the Quds Force, were charged in New York federal court today. Justice Department officials say the pair were working with a person they thought was an associate of a Mexican drug cartel to target the Saudi diplomat, Adel Al-Jubeir.
But their contact was an informant for the Drug Enforcement Agency who told US authorities about all their planning.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the Associated Press: “The idea that they would attempt to go to a Mexican drug cartel to solicit murder-for-hire to kill the Saudi ambassador, nobody could make that up, right?” Read More: http://www.thejournal.ie/iran-tried-to-hire-mexican-drug-cartel-to-kill-diplomat-251683-Oct2011/
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