Washington - Officials of the Barack Obama administration have aggressively leaked information supposedly based on classified intelligence in recent days to bolster its allegation that two higher- ranking officials from Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were involved in a plot to assassinate Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir in Washington, D.C.
The media stories generated by the leaks helped divert press attention from the fact that there is no verifiable evidence of any official Iranian involvement in the alleged assassination plan, contrary to the broad claim being made by the administration.
But the information about the two Iranian officials leaked to NBC News, the Washington Post and Reuters was unambiguously false and misleading, as confirmed by official documents in one case and a former senior intelligence and counterterrorism official in the other.
The main target of the official leaks was Abdul Reza Shahlai, who was identified publicly by the Obama administration as a "deputy commander in the Quds Force" of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Shahlai had long been regarded by U.S. officials as a key figure in the Quds Force's relationship to Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army in Iraq.
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I'm telling ya--- The military -industrial complex ain't gonna make money if we don't have an "enemy", a "threat to our national security", or some country that "yearns to be free" and they don't act alone, but in conjunction with government officials. Look at all the GOVERNMENT INITIATED "terror plots". Find some Muslims, then convince them (and sometimes it takes our agents a year or two of egging them on) to do some "terror". Then arrest them and parade them around as examples of why we must put up MORE surveillnce cameras, search more people, wiretap more phones and computers, etc. People --- PLEASE stop letting them scare you with the latest self-created "boogeyman". Now, we must be afraid of IRAN??? They can't launch a missle across the Medditeranean Sea and hit what they're aiming at, much less attack the USA. Bet WE attack THEM first....USA! USA! USA!!!
Hate to say it with such a crazy tone, but 11:46 is right. All the money being spent on the "defense" of our country if there isn't an enemy then this money all goes to waste.
He needs a diversion to draw attention away from all his failures and corruption.
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