Ten Reasons To Question US Allegations of Iranian Teror Plot http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/11739

These reasons cast serious question marks on US's real motives and raise the distinct possibility of a historical deja vu, i.e., the repetition of the pre-Iraq war ferocious campaign of vilification and manufacturing WMD lies with much media complicity, argues Kaveh L. Afrasiabi.

There are plenty of valid reasons to doubt the veracity of US's allegation that it has foiled an Iranian terror plot involving a Mexican drug cartel, despite the western media frenzy aiming at the credibility and legitimacy of Iranian regime in the international community. On the whole, these reasons cast serious question marks on US's real motives and raise the distinct possibility of a historical deja vu, i.e., the repetition of the pre-Iraq war ferocious campaign of vilification and manufacturing WMD lies with much media complicity.

First, as Time Magazine has correctly put it, the Mexican drug cartel, known to have made a conscious decision to cease its prior crossborder killings, would never risk its lucrative 4 billion dollar annual business and commit a high profile murder in US capital for the sake of a pitiful 1.5 million dollars reportedly offered by Iran to assassinate the Saudi ambassador.

Second, no credible expert on Iran can possibly have faith in the official US story that the Iranian leaders would plot to murder a Saudi diplomat in Washington simply because of their unhappiness with some of Saudi behavior in the region. But, in spite of certain strains the overall compact of Iran-Saudi bilateral relations has remained intact and there is virtually no sense of panic in Iran about threats from Saudi Arabia that would warrant such a radical departure from the norm.