Saudis Say Iran Must 'Pay The Price' For Alleged Plot As US Resists Retaliation

[Purveyor]

The Saudi Arabian government has issued a menacing warning to Iran that it will have to "pay the price" for the alleged plot to hire a Mexican drugs cartel to assassinate its ambassador in Washington.

The threat from the Saudis came as the Obama administration resisted calls from within the US, mainly from the conservative right, to retaliate against Iran with military action.

But Iran denied it was behind the alleged plot, with officials claiming Washington had fabricated the story to divide Sunni Muslims – the dominant group in Saudi – and Shias, the dominant group in Iran. Tehran's leadership claimed Barack Obama was using the story to divert attention from the Occupy Wall Street protesters.

The foreign ministry summoned the Swiss ambassador, who handles US interests in the country, to condemn what it called "baseless claims" and warn "against the repetition of such politically motivated allegations."

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/12/iran-assassination-plot-saudi-warning

[Demeter]

1. The Plot Sickens

[teddy51]

2. "Saudis Say Iran Must 'Pay The Price" So Saudis, go make them pay the price

if your up to it. Don't rely on the US to do your bidding for you. Just waltz right over to Iran and smack them big time, if you can.

[Autumn]

3. They should get off their asses and carry through

with their threats. We are not their slaves. Our men and women do not need to die for them.

[RC]

4. But, but, but... We owe them for 9/11

The have helped us so much...

For the "we were blinded sided on 9/11 folks" :sarcasm:

[Autumn]

5. You can bet your butt we "owe" them for

9/11. Look how many of the hijackers came from there and they helped with the funding of it.

[avaistheone1]

6. Thank you

[Diclotican]

7. Purveyor

Purveyor

Wel, then Saudi-Arabia. go to war, with Iran.. You do have the tools to wage a war, but lack the soldiers, so you might have to import that also, from Bangladesh and Pakistan, and other parts of the muslim world. Who most saudi-arabians look down as "infidels" becouse they dosen't share the same religious belife as the Whanabit sect of muslims do, And who are the "state religion" inside Saudi-Arabia by the way...

Saudi-Arabia and Iran have been in a "cold war" for many years, over the supremecy of the muslim world.. Saudi-Arabia is a sunni Islam Contry, whereby Iran is a Shia nation. And the two parts of the muslim faith, have been fighting for as long as the islamic faith have been around.. It all comes down to witch of the different relavtives of the Profet in Islam you want to follow teatching of.. And even tho it is similar to the chisma between Protestantism, and Roman Chatolic, who was dangrous in the 1500s, (and forward to the end of the 1960s in most cases) it is far more dangrous in the Middle East. As they for the most part, have not going true the Renessance part who Europe was under, in the late 1300s, and forward to at least 1550s.. In some parts, even up to the middle of 1600s..

I wil not try to extregate this, but for some reason this looks not like as it sounds.. I would not hold it against Saudi-Arabia, that they wanted to make the international community play it hard with Iran, and maybe even start another war in the Middle east, and maybe the removal of a contender for the power in the Islamic world.

It soulds like out off a Tom Clancy novel (who haven't been making some new books for years now!) and as the plot tices I guess it would be a good start for at least one book or two by Clancy... (He might not be mutch to the conservative from where I am, but he do wrote some decent books... )

Nothing are as it sounds or looks in the middle east, they do have a long tradition, goes tousands of years back, to play an byzantine game of political powerplay.. If I had been an advicer to Obama, I would told him, to play it safe, and not do anything to provoce unessesary conflict between Saudi-Arabia and Iran. Mostly becouse US are in no need of another war in the middle east. If Iran and Saudi-Arabia was to go head on head with eatch other, it might end up nasty for the american soldiers, both in Irak and in Afghanistan. I would tell President Obama, to read his classics, about what becouse of armies in enemy land in the Middle East.. specailly the greek classics who survived all the time to our own day... But then Im just an commoner, with no power, just my common sense of what is posible and not..

Diclotican

[Matilda]

8. More on this topic from Al-Jazeera

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 wouldn’t be caught dead near it.

The good guys in this Washington production are the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). In the words of Attorney General Eric Holder, they uncovered “a deadly plot directed by factions of the Iranian government to assassinate a foreign Ambassador on US soil with explosives”.

Holder added that the bombing of the Saudi embassy in Washington was also part of the plan. Subsequent spinning amplified that to planned bombings of the Israeli embassy in Washington, as well as the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Buenos Aires.

The Justice Department has peddled quite a murky story - Operation Red Coalition (no, you can’t make that stuff up) -centered on one Manssor Arbabsiar, a 56-year-old holding both Iranian and US passports and an Iran-based co-conspirator, Gholam Shakuri, an alleged member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps's (IRGC) Quds Force.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/10/201110121715573693.html