By Michael Hoffman
THE HOFFMAN WIRE
Felony drug charge against suspect Arbabsiar was dropped by
prosecutors last year
Copyright© Michael Hoffman • Oct.12, 2011 • www.revisionisthistory.org
"Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed
her incredulity in an interview with The Associated Press. 'The idea that they
would attempt to go to a Mexican drug cartel to solicit murder-for-hire to kill
the Saudi ambassador, nobody could make that up, right?” New York Times, Oct. 12, p. A1
FBI Director Robert Mueller said Tuesday that the alleged
attack plan read like a story line from "a Hollywood script" http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-head-terror-plot-read-movie-script/story?id=14717958
How do we know this dizzying, B-movie conspiracy theory is credible?
Because the Feds and the media say it is, except from the
corner of their mouths they are hinting at something else: Hillary’s “incredulity" and the FBI Director making
manifest a heretofore furtive truth about this operation - intentionally
affords us a peek behind the Cryptocracy’s curtain - they are gauging our
response to their Twilight language revelation that it is not to be
believed; it’s a script, an object of incredulity. What is your response?
"...the story's weird points -- like the recklessness
of wiring funds cross border into a US bank, talking about the plot on cell
phones, and working through a Mexican drug cartel raise red flags about the
solvency of the Justice Department's case. It's just hard for some to
believe that Iranian agents would operate so unprofessionally or trigger events
that could seriously harm Iran's regional and global position rather than
enhance it.”
"We're going to work with allies and partners to
send Iran a message: we don't tolerate the targeting of foreign diplomats on
our soil," said a senior Obama administration official -- except when
the targets are Iranian nuclear scientists bombed on Iran's soil -- then
it's okay! (and the media support it).
DRUG CHARGE AGAINST THE SUSPECT WAS DROPPED LAST YEAR
The suspect now in custody, Arbabsiar, "was charged in
March 2010 with possession of a controlled substance of less than 1 gram, a
state jail felony, according to Williamson
County court records. The
case was dismissed five months later. A notation on the online record said the
case was refiled, but no further information was available Tuesday evening;
Arbabsiar's lawyer on that case couldn't be reached.” (Austin, Texas Statesman, Oct. 11).
What a coincidence that this hastily cooked-up Keystone
cops conspiracy theory comes just at the time that Eric Holder was facing a
possible perjury investigation over the US government's arming of —what else?—
Mexican drug cartels! Now the focus is different and some of the heat is
off. Distraction is key to the Cryptocracy and here is a doozy that will be
swallowed hook, line and sinker by every Iran-hating Protestant fundamentalist
and Catholic neocon in America. Damn
those Iranians! they’ll say, never thinking to ask themselves, Wait a
minute — how do we know it's true? They’ll believe it because their god is
the Federal government and its mouthpiece media.
They believe Pearl Harbor
really was a "sneak attack" and the 9/11 terror attacks were perpetrated by a handful of
Arabs.
They’ll believe anything as long as it takes us to war on
behalf of our dear allies, “Israel"
(and the royal House of Saud).
New York Times drops “alleged” and affirms there
was a plot but doesn’t know how high up in Iran it emanates. But at least 'we
know'—because the Times tells us so— that the Federal government’s
accusations are correct (how the Times knows this so early is not
disclosed): "It remained unclear, though, whether the plot was
conceived by a rogue element or had approval from top officials of the
Revolutionary Guards or the Iranian government.” --Charlie Savage and Scott
Shane, New York Times, Oct. 12, p. A1 (emphasis supplied).
“It looks like an act of war.” —Walid Phares, an
adviser to the U.S. House of
Representatives Caucus on Counter Terrorism, USA Today (online), Oct. 11
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This column is online here:
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By Michael Hoffman
THE HOFFMAN WIRE
More credibility gaps in U.S. government’s story of Iranian
plot
Claiming that the government of Iran
hired a used-car salesman and a Mexican criminal drug gang that is known to be
riddled with both Mexican and US intelligence agents to organize a hit against
a Saudi ambassador on US
soil is an insult to our intelligence
The Austin Statesman newspaper (Oct. 11 online)
reported that Manssor Arbabsiar was arrested on a felony drug charge in 2010
and then all charges were dropped by the local prosecutor Was this done in
exchange for some kind of deal to become a patsy in this goofy
“plot”? (The Austin Statesman took the report of the arrest down
on Oct. 12 — see the “Correction” at the bottom of the page).
Watching Congress and the government’s mouthpiece media
buying, without question, this story of a "plot,"
automatically assuming the Federal prosecutor’s case is 100% infallible, that
Iran is certainly guilty as charged, and then calling for sanctions, and even
war (!) is testimony to the abysmally low mental state of "our"
leaders.
Reuters reports that: "Kenneth Katzman, an Iran specialist
at the Congressional Research Service, said there were elements of the alleged
plot that did not make sense. 'The idea of using a Texas
car salesman [suspect Manssor Arbabsiar] who is not really a Quds Force person
himself, who has been in residence in the United States many years, that
doesn't add up,' Katzman said. 'There could have been some contact on this with
the Quds Force, but the idea that this was some sort of directed, vetted, fully
thought-through plot, approved at high levels in Tehran leadership I think
defies credulity,' he said."
As for Arbabsiar, The New York Times writes this
morning that he "seems to have been more a stumbling opportunist than a
calculating killer. Over the 30-odd years he lived in Texas, he left a string of failed businesses
and angry creditors in his wake, and an embittered ex-wife who sought a
protective order against him. He was perennially disheveled, friends and
acquaintances said, and hopelessly disorganized. ... "Many of his old
friends and associates in Texas
seemed stunned at the news, not merely because he was not a zealot, but because
he seemed too incompetent to pull it off."
The Christian Science Monitor reports: Iran
specialists who have followed the Islamic Republic for years say that many
details in the alleged plot just don't add up. "It's a very strange case,
it doesn't really fit Iran's mode of operation," says Alireza Nader, an
Iran analyst at the Rand Corp. in Arlington, Va., and coauthor of studies about
the Revolutionary Guard.
Doesn't serve Iran's interests in any conceivable
way
"This [plot] doesn't seem to serve Iran's
interests in any conceivable way," says Nader. "Assassinating the
Saudi ambassador would increase international pressure against Iran, could be
considered an act of war ... by Saudi Arabia, it could really destabilize the
government in Iran; and this is a political system that is interested in its
own survival."
Iran has been trying to evade sanctions, strengthen
relations with non-Western partners, while continuing with its nuclear program,
notes Nader. He says it is "difficult" to believe that either Qassim
Soleimani – the canny commander of the Qods Force – or Iran's deliberative supreme religious leader,
Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, would order such an attack that "would put
all of Iran's
objectives and strategies at risk."
Muhammad Sahimi, in an analysis for the Tehran
Bureau website of the Christian Science Monitor states:"It is essentially
impossible to believe that the IRI [Islamic Republic of Iran]
would act in such a way as to open a major new front against itself."
That view has been echoed by many Iran watchers, who are raising
doubts about the assassination plot allegations. "This plot, if true,
departs from all known Iranian policies and procedures," writes Gary Sick, an Iran
expert at Columbia
University and principal
White House aide during the 1979 Iranian revolution and hostage crisis. While
Iran may have many reasons to be angry at the US and Saudi Arabia, Mr. Sick
notes in a posting on the Gulf2000/Columbia experts list that he moderates,
"it is difficult to believe that they would rely on a non-Islamic criminal
gang to carry out this most sensitive of all possible missions."
"Are we to believe that this Texas
car seller was a Qods sleeper agent for many years resident in the US?
Ridiculous," said Katzman, who authored a study of the Revolutionary Guard
in the 1990s. "They (the Iranian command system) never ever use such
has-beens or loosely connected people for sensitive plots such as this."
"There is simply no precedent — or even reasonable
rationale — for Iran
working any plot, no matter where located, through a non-Muslim proxy such as
Mexican drug gangs. No one high up in the Quds, the I.R.G.C. command, the
Supreme National Security Committee, or anywhere else in the Iranian chain of
command would possibly trust that such a plot could be kept secret or carried
out properly by the Mexican drug people. They absolutely would not trust such a
thing to them, given Iran's undoubted assumption that the Mexicans are
penetrated by the D.E.A. and F.B.I. and A.T.F., etc — and indeed this plot was
revealed by just such a U.S. informant," Mr. Katzman concluded.
FALSE FLAG
Hamid Serri, an Iranian-American scholar at Florida
International University who contributes to Mr. Sick's online forum, suggested
another alternate explanation for the plot: that it could have been the work of
a non-Iranian intelligence agency or even a terrorist organization with an
interest in creating "a confrontation that involves the U.S., Iran and
Saudi Arabia."
Referring to the fact that the only money that apparently
changed hands before the alleged plot was exposed was $100,000 wired from what
was said to be an Iranian-controlled bank account to a man posing as a member
of the Mexican cartel Los Zetas (who turned out to be an informant for the U.S.
Drug Enforcement Agency), Mr. Serri observed that this would be a "cheap
price" for an enemy of Iran to pay for the damning headlines that have
appeared since the alleged plot was exposed.
$100,000 COULD NOT HAVE BEEN WIRED FROM IRAN
As the Guardian newspaper's diplomatic editor
Julian Borger explained, the money could not have been wired directly from Iran, "because such transfers are
impossible under U.S.
law." So the money must have come from an account in a third country that
American officials concluded was under the control of someone in Iran.
Mr. Serri, who is originally from Iran, added that it is
perhaps too easy for anyone with an interest in stirring up trouble between the
two countries to do so, given the lack of diplomatic relations between the U.S.
and Iran.
Once again, this crisis shows the tremendous danger of lack
of direct communication between Iran
and the U.S. — to the extent
that someone with a telephone line in Iran and $100,000 cash in pocket
can bring the two countries so close to confrontation. Direct, in-person
contact between the national security councils of Iran
and the U.S.
is a necessity. It's time to grow up.
Another possibility is that such a plot could have been
carried out by one of the Iranian exile groups such as the MEK,
that have used terror to wage a long, murky struggle to weaken and overthrow
Iran's Islamic Republic since it was founded three decades ago.
It's intriguing to know that there are many FBI and DEA
agents placed in the Los Zetas drug cartel. How strange that their presence has
not radically curtailed drug importations or murders, which are on the
increase. The notion that Iranians would use this mechanism to clumsily kill the
Saudi ambassador is absurd. It's "Remember the Maine!"
and Gulf of Tonkin all over again. Maybe, just
maybe, the Israelis have something to do with it? It's got low farce written
all over it.
Hoffman is the author of Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare
For further research:
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