Valin Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 NY Times: BENJAMIN WEISER May 30, 2013 An Iranian-American used-car salesman from Texas who was accused of plotting to hire assassins from a Mexican drug cartel to murder Saudi Arabias ambassador to the United States was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday in Federal District Court in Manhattan. The defendant, Mansour J. Arbabsiar, a naturalized American citizen living in Corpus Christi, Tex., was arrested on Sept. 29, 2011, at Kennedy International Airport, and he ultimately pleaded guilty to his role in the bizarre scheme. When the case, with a plotline that seemed scripted from a Hollywood movie, was made public, it riveted Washington and raised already-heightened tensions between the Sunni royal family that rules Saudi Arabia and the Shiite-controlled government in Iran. At the time of Mr. Arbabsiars arrest, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said that the plot had been directed and approved by elements of the Iranian government and, specifically, senior members of the Quds force, which is part of Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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