It seemed like a plot right out of a Hollywood espionage film.
A foreign country, one suspected for being slightly over the edge, slips up and has one of their would-be assassins caught – all on American soil.
Like many movies, it appears all is not as it seems with the recent stopping of Iran’s assassination attempt. While an action as brazen and crazy as the supposed Iranian assassination plot of Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States, Adel Al-Jubeir, may sound plausible to many, there are those who claim it simply doesn’t make sense, or even fit the Iranian style.
Yes, as crazy as Iran and its president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have been perceived in the past, this is too much.
However, when people delve into some of the possible reasons, there appears to be a much better planned element to the whole matter.
All is not united and joyous in the country of Iran, unsurprisingly. For some time now, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has been severed into factions – one of which was apparently behind the planning of the assassination attempt.
Their reasons? Well, if you’re a conspiracy buff, then it’s probably going to sound familiar.
The goal of the assassination attempt on Ambassador Al-Jubeir was apparently not so much his death, but the reactions it would cause in the international community. In this regard, the plan seems to have been pretty successful, as we’ve had politicians from both sides of the aisle clamoring for some retaliation.
This threat of retribution from the West is what some say the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps wanted all along.
According to former Iranian consul Mohammad Reza Heydari, “There is a portion of the Revolutionary Guards who want to create an external crisis so they can consolidate their power and push to unite different groups inside