Authorities foiled a plot that was directed by factions of the Iranian government to bomb the Israeli and Saudi Arabian embassies in Washington and a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday at a press conference. The criminal complaint, which unsealed in federal court in New York City Tuesday, identified the two alleged plotters as Manssor Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri, both with ties to Iran, Reuters reported. Arbabsiar has been jailed in New York since September and Shakuri remains at large.
Holder called the alleged plot was a "flagrant violation of US and international law" and the U.S. will hold Iran accountable.
Arbabsair, a naturalized U.S. citizen who holds an Iranian passport, allegedly expressed disregard for the collateral damage that the attacks in Washington would have caused.
NOTE FROM POSTER: Hmmmmmmmmmmmm ... How much involvement of Israel was there in this discovery? You suppose they have arranged the cards so that we WILL be fighting their freaking war against Iran???