Summary
When White House officials first heard an informant's report last spring describing an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington, they found it implausible. They asked the same question we all have been puzzling over since the indictment Tuesday of the alleged plotters:
If the Iranians planned such a sensitive operation, why would they delegate the job to Manssor Arbabsiar, an Iranian-American former used-car dealer, and a hit team drawn from a Mexican drug cartel? To say it sounded like a spy novel is unfair to the genre. The wacky plot was closer to that of an Elmore Leonard "caper" novel, along the lines of "Get Shorty."See the full content of this document
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Those Keystone Iranians
But over the months, officials at the White House and the Justice Department became convinced the plan was real. One big reason is that the CIA and other intel...
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