Iranian Plot Derided As 'Amateur Hour'
The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › October 13, 2011
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WASHINGTON - The alleged Iranian plot against the Saudi ambassador to Washington was "amateur hour," an unusually clumsy operation for Iran's elite foreign action unit, the Quds Force, U.S. officials said Wednesday as further stranger-than-fiction details emerged of the assassination gone wrong.
The Iranians' would-be covert operative turned to a woman he met while working as a used car dealer, hoping to find a Mexican drug dealer-assassin, and wound up with an American informant instead, according to U.S. officials.See the full content of this document
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Iranian Plot Derided As 'Amateur Hour'
Other U.S. officials said Manssor Arbabsiar made further mistakes,...
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