Iran: DC Plot Suspect a High Profile MeK Member
State News Agency Speculates Plot Was Effort to Frame Iran
Adding to the growing intrigue over last week’s DC assassination plot, the Iranian government revealed today that Gholam Shakuri, who US officials claimed was a member of the Quds Force, is actually a “key member” of the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MeK), a State Department listed terrorist organization hostile to the Iranian government.
Shakuri was accused of being behind the plot along with the much more widely covered Mansour Arbabsiar, a US citizen and failed used car salesman from Texas who officials speculated was brought into the plot because a history of living in Texas meant he might be able to find Mexican drug cartel leaders to recruit.
Shakuri was charged, but never actually arrested, and the Justice Department insisted that he is “still at large.” Iran appears to have been looking for him for awhile as well, and says he has used forged Iranian passports with the names Ali Shakuri or Gholam-Hussein Shakuri as well.
Iran’s state news agency Mehr speculated that the plot was actually an MeK effort to implicate Iran, and if this is the case it appears to have worked quite well since even though a number of experts have shrugged the plot off as nonsensical US officials continue to rail against Iran and vow revenge.
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MoT
October 18th, 2011 at 5:10 pm
Whoa Nelly…!!! So the fictional Quds "terrorist" is actually someone from the MEK who our imperial liars have been grand standing to remove from the State Departments terrorist list? Sounds like Kosovo all over again.
baz
October 18th, 2011 at 8:57 pm
so we have our answer then…
suffice it to say that israel must be involved given their intimate ties to the MEK
GREAT JOB ANTIWAR ON YOUR REPORTING!!
John_Muhammad
October 18th, 2011 at 11:44 pm
BUSTED !!!
ghouri
October 19th, 2011 at 2:04 am
No one can believe american allegations as a common man on the street why? Iran should add more enemies than the west already for lies.
emistruth
October 19th, 2011 at 4:30 am
Since every one of the criminals involved in the September 11, 2001 attacks came from Saudi Arabia, the Obama Administration should attack Saudi Arabia not Iran, Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan.
backblow
October 19th, 2011 at 5:32 am
"The group, also known as the National Council of Resistance of Iran, is regarded by Iran as a violent insurgent organization with a history of assassinations and sabotage aimed at overthrowing the Islamic government that took power in 1979."
The NY Times disembles yet again. They fail to mention just why the MEK is hated by most Iranians, They fought as shock troops for Saddam Hussein in his brutal and illegal invasion of Iran that the West did nothing to stop, particularly when he used western-supplied chemical weapons against the Iranians. In fact, the west supplied weapons and support to both sides to prolong the war.
It pains me to say this but Howard Dean has become a whore in his old age.
Ike Hall
October 19th, 2011 at 5:45 am
Yup, blown wide open!!!
Bianca
October 19th, 2011 at 6:02 am
Yep. Why not use the same old trick, for as long as it works? Public is distracted anyway with economy, and has no time to notice the money going down the rathole of the elite war game amusement park.
blutopie
October 19th, 2011 at 9:43 am
Isn't this treasonous for Obama, Biden, Hillary, Holder to be in on an Israeli Lobby plot to sucker the US into yet another war for Israel?
Treason is the only word for it
babak
October 19th, 2011 at 1:57 pm
I'm not for Violence but I was just wondering would you talk to Hitler and try to change him and his staff. Sorry but 120000 people were killed by the same regime you talk with. With all due respect but those in power in Iran do not give any room for discussion if they did why don't they let the 3400 people in Ashraf. The MEK/PMOI go back to Iran as they requested and enjoy freedom of speech. What would you do If the abuse your daughter, sister or mother and when you try to help them by law they arrest and torture you like they did to Nasrin Sotude. I really wish for Iran to change in a peaceful way and I really wish that the regime will change its attitude. But hey its gone 30 years. I think its the Iranian people who will decide and they will remember those who backed the regime with fine words of peace, love and reconciliation.
MvGuy
October 19th, 2011 at 4:23 pm
MY, My, my….. How convenient of Shakuri to have vanished, just when needed for proper identification… MEK or CIA…;.Mosad?? or "Quds Farce"…??? Inquiring minds wanna know…!!
Nick Mulgrave
October 19th, 2011 at 6:06 pm
It wont matter who this guy was working for. Americans are too stupid to tell the difference between Quds, MEK or Mossad anyway. Half the American population wouldn't even be able to locate Iran on the map if asked to. If the talking heads in Washington and the Television say Golam Shakuri is guilty then he is guilty. Simple. The shepherds of democracy have now spoken. They have protected the sheep from the wolves 'yet again' and all they want in return from the docile animals is that they turn a blind eye when the Sheppard sacrifices tier lambs to obtain greener pastures. Now chew your grass and quit your bleating.
RickR30
October 19th, 2011 at 8:26 pm
Not surprised at all, rather it was fairly transparent. Now we need to find the connection between MEK and mossad. Oh wait, the connection are all the US politicians and military, ordinarily in the pockets of israel, traveling around the world representing the interests of MEK.
Evan
October 20th, 2011 at 7:21 pm
Ditz, this story has a single source, an Islamic Republican news outlet. Isn't a little skepticism due? If Fox News made an analogous assertion, would you have been so credulous?
reza
October 24th, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Obama administration officials on Wednesday denied Iranian news reports that a man charged in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States is actually an agent of an exiled Iranian opposition group.
“We note that these reports originate solely with Iranian state media sources, which have a documented history of fabricating news stories,” said Rhonda H. Shore, a State Department spokeswoman.