Allegations of Iranian and U.S. Plots Are Added to a History of Hostility

[The Northerner]

WASHINGTON — When an Iranian scientist was shot and killed in front of his home in Tehran on July 23, he was the third researcher with supposed ties to Iran’s nuclear program to be assassinated in less than two years.

A week later, $49,960 was wired from a foreign bank account linked to Iran’s Quds Force to a man posing as a Mexican drug hit man, the down payment on an alleged Iranian scheme to murder the Saudi ambassador to the United States.

The simultaneous unfolding of assassination plots in two countries might well be a coincidence. But if the Obama administration is right that the outlandish contract scheme to murder the ambassador was the work of Iranian officials, it is only the latest episode in a covert struggle that has played out for years involving Iran, the United States and an American ally, Israel.

“The Iranians absolutely believe the U.S. and Israel have been carrying out a covert campaign against them,” said Gary Sick, an Iran expert at Columbia University. “And clearly they are right.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/world/middleeast/us-and-iran-playing-out-old-story-with-accusations.html

[Amonester]

1. Although the rest of the story is not surprising, the following is so wacked out

"$49,960 was wired from a foreign bank account linked to Iran’s Quds Force to a man posing as a Mexican drug hit man"

It is so amateurish it could have been all made up by cheney & rumsfeld themselves...

Bank transfers like THAT would not be 'easily' wiretapped?? Come the f on!

[aquart]

2. We cannot go to war with Iran.

It would unite a divided nation and we would be idiots to do that for them.

On edit: THEY ARE NOT ARABS. An attack on Iran would mean we have become Saudi mercenaries. It is in our national interest to butt out and let them all hate each other more than they can hate us.