Saudi Ambassador’s Murder Plotter Gets 25-Year Sentence
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Manssor Arbabsiar, an Iranian-American used-car salesman, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for conspiring with members of the Iranian military to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S. with a bomb.
U.S. District Judge John Keenan in Manhattan said today that a shorter term wouldn’t reflect the seriousness of the crime. The bombing, which was to have taken place in a Washington restaurant, would have inflicted “mass casualties” had it been carried out, the judge said.