Did Iran Plot to Kill?

Behind the alleged scheme against the Saudi envoy on U.S. soil

Nueces County Sherifs Department

Did Iran Plot to Kill? Behind the alleged scheme against the Saudi envoy on U.S. soil.

When Mexican border authorities refused to allow Manssor Arbabsiar to enter their country late last month and instead put him on a plane bound for New York City, the used-car salesman may have sensed something had gone very wrong. He had made multiple business trips to Mexico City before without incident, but this time--according to a complaint unsealed by the U.S. Justice Department on Oct. 11--he'd been on his way to meet a man he thought was a member of a drug cartel to plan the final stages of a bomb attack against the Saudi Arabian ambassador in Washington. Did someone...

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