Iran accuses US of using assassination plot as distraction from 'Occupy Wall Street'

[Cali_Democrat]

Scott Peterson | The Christian Science Monitor | Oct 12, 2011

Iran has expressed outrage at charges by the US that it was behind a plot to assassinate the top Saudi Arabian diplomat in Washington and bomb Israeli and Saudi embassies on US soil.

US court documents unsealed on Tuesday allege that Iranian agents from the Qods Force, a specialist branch of the Revolutionary Guard, sought to hire hit men from a Mexican drug cartel. But Iran is quickly countering with its own narrative that Washington is desperate to distract attention from severe economic problems, and what Iran calls the spreading "awakening" of American citizens manifested in the Occupy Wall Street protests.

"No doubt this is a new American-Zionist plot to divert the public opinion from the crisis Obama is grappling with," the chairman of Iran's National Security and Foreign Policy committee in parliament, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, said on Wednesday.

"Americans are seeking to derail the public opinion from the Wall Street uprising," said Mr. Boroujerdi, according to Fars News Agency, which is linked to the Revolutionary Guard. Iran "has never pursued or adopted the policy of assassination, and it rather is a victim of terrorism. Therefore, the US officials' allegation is nothing but a big lie."

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/iran-accuses-us-using-assassination-plot-distraction-occupy-wall-street

[BlueJazz]

1. My friends have been saying this crap would happen for a week.

Everybody agreed that as soon as the Wall street/Nation protest-thing got rolling, there would
be a "Crisis" or "Development" and the media would run-like-the-wind to the next 15 minute story.

The rich are like an open dirty book....

[Cali_Democrat]

2. It is interesting, isn't it?