U.S. Indicts Two Iranians for Saudi Diplomat Assassination Plot
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The U.S. indicted two Iranian men on charges they attempted to use a weapon of mass destruction to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador in Washington.
Manssor Arbabsiar, 56, an Iranian-American car salesman living in Texas, and Gholam Shakuri, who the U.S. said was an Iran-based member of that country’s “Qods Force,” attempted to recruit a man posing as a member of a violent Mexican drug cartel as their assassin, according to a five-count indictment filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.