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NOVANEWS The alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US does not fit with what is known about the supposed perpetrators EDITORS NOTE: The money may have come from Mossad, and the “assassination plot”was not a plot to assassinate anyone, but simply a $100,000 venture to “frame” Iran for an assassination plot plan. Who benefits?  Who had the connections, the ability and the opportunity?  Who had $100,000 bucks they could afford to throw away? There is no need to be a conspiracy theorist,  it is all so transparent! Unanswered questions over the alleged Iranian assassination plot by Julian Borger, guardian.co.uk It has the ring of a far-fetched Hollywood thriller and even the senior law enforcement official involved in the investigation admitted to journalists that the alleged pl...

NOVANEWS  by crescentandcross in Uncategorized    Pepe Escobar No one ever lost money betting on the dull predictability of the US government. Just as Occupy Wall Street is firing imaginations all across the spectrum – piercing the noxious revolving door between government and casino capitalism – Washington brought us all down to earth, sensationally advertising an Iranian cum Mexican cartel terror plot straight out of The Fast and the Furious movie franchise. The potential victim: Adel al-Jubeir, the ambassador in the US of that lovely counter-revolutionary Mecca, Saudi Arabia. FBI Director Robert Mueller insisted the Iran-masterminded terror plot “reads like the pages of a Hollywood script”. It does. And quite a sloppy script at that. Fast and Furious duo Paul Walker/Vin Diesel w...

NOVANEWS Not even good propaganda By Justin Raimondo Fake, fake, fake – I’m talking about the latest anti-Iranian propaganda coming out of Washington, which claims the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were involved in a “plot” to take out the Saudi ambassador to the US and blow up both the Saudi and Israeli embassies. The narrative reads like a formulaic melodrama: two Iranians, one a naturalized US citizen, purportedly approached someone they thought was a member of a Mexican drug cartel – according to the indictment [.pdf], it was a “sophisticated” drug cartel, not the plebeian sort – and proposed paying him $1.5 million to murder Adel al Jubeir, the Kingdom’s ambassador in Washington – oh, and by the way, the Iranians supposedly said, “Are you guys any good with explosives?” The key to und...

NOVANEWS by Stephen Lendman Since Iran’s 1979 revolution and US hostage crisis, Washington’s been spoiling for a fight. The Carter administration considered invading and seizing its oil fields. Washington exploited Iran/Iraq tensions and encouraged Saddam Hussein to attack. Earlier Iran’s Shah was supported. After 1979, US foreign policy shifted. The Carter Doctrine pledged Middle East military intervention if US interests were threatened. Reagan escalated Carter policies short of committing US forces in combat. Saddam then got US backing. A decade of war followed. America pretended support for both sides, but mostly gave it to Iraq. US/Iranian relations remain tense. Washington’s sought regime change in Tehran for years. Various confrontational tactics include on and off saber rattling, ...

NOVANEWS by Judith Miller NewsMax Vice President Joe Biden called an Iranian plot to assassinate kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington "really over the top" and said the administration was taking nothing "off the table" in calibrating a response. "It is an outrageous act that the Iranians are going to have to be held accountable," Biden told ABC News Wednesday morning. While American legislators and other officials called upon President Barack Obama to respond "forcefully" to the alleged Iranian plot that involved setting off a bomb at a popular Washington restaurant, some American and foreign experts on Iranian terrorism said they were cautious or skeptical about the alleged conspiracy. Michael V. Hayden, a former director of both the CIA and the National Security Agency un...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross    ELEANOR HALL: Now to the United States where a former intelligence analyst is warning the Obama administration to step back from blaming Iran for the foiled assassination plot against the Saudi ambassador in Washington. The US attorney-general says Iran is behind what would have been a blatant act of international terrorism and which investigating authorities said was intended to be a prelude to other attacks. The Iranian regime is denying any involvement in the plot and says the allegations are US propaganda. At a press conference announcing the plot and the charging of two Iranians, attorney-general Eric Holder said that the US would “hold Iran accountable for its actions”. The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton also warned that the US will co...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross    Reuters Iran’s supreme leader and the shadowy Quds Force covert operations unit were likely aware of an alleged plot to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States, but hard evidence of that is scant, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. The United States does not have solid information about “exactly how high it goes,” one official said. The Obama administration has publicly and directly blamed Iran’s government for seeking to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington, Adel al-Jubeir, and has warned Tehran it will face consequences. The accusation has heightened tensions in the volatile, oil-rich Gulf. Tehran has called the accusation a fabrication designed to sow discord in the region. The U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity,...

NOVANEWS by: Richard Silverstein, Truthout In 2009, Shamai Leibowitz was working secretly for the FBI, translating wiretapped conversations among Israeli diplomats in this country. He passed some transcripts of these conversations to me, which described an Israeli diplomatic campaign in this country to create a hostile environment for relations with Iran. I published excerpts from them in my blog, Tikun Olam. Leibowitz, who comes from a family of distinguished Israeli Orthodox public intellectuals, first came to prominence inside Israel when he signed a statement refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories. He went on to earn a law degree and was one of the Israeli attorneys who represented Palestinian Marwan Barghouti in his terror trial. In a statement certain to enrage Israelis and ...

NOVANEWS  by crescentandcross in Uncategorized  Not even good propaganda Justin Raimondo Fake, fake, fake – I’m talking about the latest anti-Iranian propaganda coming out of  Washington, which claims the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were involved  in a “plot” to take out the Saudi ambassador to the US and blow up both the Saudi and Israeli embassies. The narrative reads like a formulaic melodrama: two Iranians,  one a naturalized US citizen, purportedly approached someone they thought  was a member of a Mexican drug cartel – according to the indictment [.pdf],  it was a “sophisticated” drug cartel, not the plebeian sort – and proposed paying him $1.5 million to murder Adel al Jubeir, the Kingdom’s  ambassador in Washington – oh, and by the way, the Iranians supposedly  said, “Are you g...

By Kourosh Ziabari  The Guinness Book of World Records should await its downfall in the near future. A new rival is slated to take the place of Guinness World Records in the near future. Sayyed Mortaza Mirseradji, Iranian researcher, journalist and essayist has registered a plan in the Islamic Republic of Iran Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance to publish a book containing cultural, spiritual and moral records called “Al-Khayrat.” According to Mirseradji, Al-Khayrat which means “good and decent deeds” in Arabic will be an all-encompassing enterprise including encyclopedic books, movies and cultural organizations which are aimed at spreading cultural and moral records in the world. Some examples of cultural and moral records include the highest number of books written by an author, ...