U.S. Accuses Iranians of Plotting to Kill Saudi Envoy
Federal authorities foiled a plot by men linked to the Iranian government to
kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States and to bomb the embassies of
Saudi Arabia and Israel in Washington, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said
in a news conference on Tuesday.
The men accused of plotting the attacks were Manssor Arbab Arbabsiar and Gholam
Shakuri, according to court documents filed in federal court in the Southern
District of New York. Both men are originally from Iran, Reuters reported.
There is “no basis to believe that any other co-conspirators are present in the
U.S.,” Mr. Holder said.
He said the men were connected to the secretive Quds Force, a division of Iran’s
elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps that has carried out operations in
other countries. He said that money in support of the plot had been transferred
through a bank in New York, but that the men had not yet obtained any
explosives.
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