ASSASSINATION PLOT A U.S. STING OPERATION AGAINST IRAN

"... the legal document describing evidence in the case provides multiple indications that it was mainly the result of an FBI "sting" operation... the legal document, called an amended criminal complaint... suggests that the idea originated with and was strongly pushed by a undercover DEA informant, at the direction of the FBI... when Arbabsiar first met with the DEA informant he thought was part of a Mexican drug cartel, it was not to hire a hit squad to kill the ambassador... there is reason to believe that the main purpose was to arrange a deal to sell large amounts of opium from Afghanistan... not a single quote from Arbabsiar shows that he agreed to assassinating the ambassador, much less proposed it... There is also circumstantial evidence that Arbabsiar may have even been brought into the sting operation to help further implicate his cousin Gholam Shakuri... an officer in the Iranian Quds Force... in the terrorist plot."
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