Independent: US Claims against Iran Similar to Accusing Iraq of Developing Weapons of Mass Destruction
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Under the title, "this Bizarre Plot goes against all that is Known of Iran's Intelligence Service," the "Independent" writer Patrick Cockburn said that "the claim that Iran employed a used-car salesman to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington goes against all that is known of Iran's highly sophisticated intelligence
service."
The famous writer in the British newspaper compared the US false accusations against Iran to that of Iraq's developing weapons of mass destruction.
"The confident announcement of this bizarre plot by the US Attorney General Eric Holder sounds alarmingly similar to Secretary of State Colin Powell's notorious claim before the UN in 2003 that the US possessed irrefutable evidence Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction," Cockburn explained.
In a clear answer to Washington's false allegations, the author mentions the
following facts:
"The plot as described in court was puerile, easy to discover and unlikely to succeed. A Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) informant in Corpus Christi, Texas, with supposed links to Los Zetas gangsters in Mexico, said he had been approached by an Iranian friend of his aunt called Mansour Arbabsiar to hire the Zetas to make attacks. A link is established with the Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)," he clarifies to come out with the conclusion:
"None of this makes sense."
Stating some of the US administration goals for the claims against Iran, Cockburn says that "there will be those on the neo-con right and extreme supporters of "Israel" who have long been pressing for a war with Iran."
"In the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have been vociferously asserting that Iran is orchestrating Shia pro-democracy protests, but without finding many believers in the rest of the world. There will be less pressure on countries like Bahrain to accommodate their Shia populations," he adds.
Source: "Independent" newspaper, Edited by moqawama.org
Under the title, "this Bizarre Plot goes against all that is Known of Iran's Intelligence Service," the "Independent" writer Patrick Cockburn said that "the claim that Iran employed a used-car salesman to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington goes against all that is known of Iran's highly sophisticated intelligence
service."
The famous writer in the British newspaper compared the US false accusations against Iran to that of Iraq's developing weapons of mass destruction.
"The confident announcement of this bizarre plot by the US Attorney General Eric Holder sounds alarmingly similar to Secretary of State Colin Powell's notorious claim before the UN in 2003 that the US possessed irrefutable evidence Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction," Cockburn explained.
In a clear answer to Washington's false allegations, the author mentions the
following facts:
"The plot as described in court was puerile, easy to discover and unlikely to succeed. A Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) informant in Corpus Christi, Texas, with supposed links to Los Zetas gangsters in Mexico, said he had been approached by an Iranian friend of his aunt called Mansour Arbabsiar to hire the Zetas to make attacks. A link is established with the Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)," he clarifies to come out with the conclusion:
"None of this makes sense."
Stating some of the US administration goals for the claims against Iran, Cockburn says that "there will be those on the neo-con right and extreme supporters of "Israel" who have long been pressing for a war with Iran."
"In the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have been vociferously asserting that Iran is orchestrating Shia pro-democracy protests, but without finding many believers in the rest of the world. There will be less pressure on countries like Bahrain to accommodate their Shia populations," he adds.
Source: "Independent" newspaper, Edited by moqawama.org
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