The wild story published by the Department of Justice about a plot to assassinate Iran smells suspiciously like something that passes through the digestive tract of a bull. However, the U.S. should expect that to be true. Because Iran is fiercer look like idiots blithering terrorist organization.
According to the criminal complaint filed against Mansour and Gholam Arbabsiar Shakuri Tuesday, agents of the Qods Force of Iran feared, a branch of the jungle Buck-buck-wild and Revolutionary Guards, conspired to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States in Washington, DC You could go to the Embassy of Israel to raise hell. And if the idea of starting a regional war - the most likely outcome of the murder of Iranian diplomats rivals in the Middle East, on American soil, no less - not enough, the Qods Force have searched for a breakthrough with Mexican cartels of drugs.
It's a salad bar fusion safety concerns of the United States. Mad Iranian terrorists and violent Mexican drug traffickers. No wonder that FBI Director Robert Mueller called the plot straight out of Hollywood.
But here's what you should expect it really came down to the government describes how difficult it is to believe.
Entities spun narrative police report, a naturalized U.S. citizen, Arbabsiar, approached by a man from Mexico who was believed to be linked to "a large and violent drug cartel sophisticated traffic" in the spring of 2011. Arbabsiar, who boasted that his cousin was a big cheese, the Iranian military units, was willing to pay a guy $ 1.5 million to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador Adel Al-Jubair. Two men had never met before.
What Arbabsiar did not know was that his party was paid for the reporting agent is the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Arbabsiar claiming to be in favor of his cousin, the Qods force bigwig Shahlai Abdul Reza, Mexico, wired cash. It 'went straight to the bank account to guide the FBI.
If any of this is remotely true, crack Qods Force intelligence work is amazing to watch. Mexican informant reported Arbabsiar calls. They reveal some code words ridiculously bland. Icing is called al-Jubair, "painting houses" - Arbabsiar fixed points for his partner, that could leave the house in mid paintings - and himself al-Jubair was the "Chevrolet".
This leak is suspected to be operating, when he called in Mexico in September, will be arrested at the airport. Arrested, Arbabsiar cracked, and accused the Qods Force, the plot. U.S. officials also had to call his cousin Arbabsiar Enforcer Shakur and participate. "You mean that you buy all the [Chevrolet]?" Shakur said, presumably wheeler-dealer in the same Qods Force.
Qods Force, is not a joke - or until you release the police report, it was hard to think of it as a joke. U.S. accused of smuggling of deadly bombings in Iraq (although sometimes without much evidence). As Thomas Jocelyn Weekly Standard points out, the Qods Force - and in particular Shahlai - was behind one of the most sophisticated and brazen attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq during the war, the ambush is the establishment of Karbala. It is believed to be responsible for the formation and financing of terrorist proxies of Iran, especially Hezbollah.
Which raises the obvious question: why are so sophisticated organization with ties to known terrorists, the risk of creating a new kind of partnership with an unknown group of Mexican drug with such stakes are high? Many have speculated that the land described in the complaint can not be true - or that Shakur was not operational Qods Force, the Iranian government or older knew outlandish plot. "Quds are better than this," former CIA agent Robert Baer told the Washington Post. "If you want to come after you, you were already dead."
Maybe. But let's give the government the benefit of the doubt. If the story really came down to what the government claims, then the most feared army of Iran / intelligence arm looks like a bunch of buffoons miscalculations. And these are the people, David Petraeus, said that the Iranian regime is based on the growing Iranian influence across the Middle East. Calculation error is really dangerous in foreign policy. However, United States - and Jubair - may be able to find solace in the fact that nine out of ten times, incompetence is much worse.
