Iran Urges Saudi to Avoid U.S. 'Trap'
Iran on Thursday urged Saudi Arabia "not to fall into the trap" of believing U.S. claims that Tehran was behind an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington, saying the accusations only served the United States and Israel.
"I am asking Saudi Arabia not to fall into the trap, because any disturbance in relations between countries in the (Middle East) region will only benefit the United States and the Zionist regime," said Ali Ahani,Iran's deputy foreign minister in charge of Europe and America affairs, according to the IRNA news agency.
Ahani was quoted as saying that "we hope that Saudi Arabia will understand the aims of this plot" which he said was mounted by the United States.
"This pathetic and conspirational scenario is so clumsy that even American media and political circles are looking at it with doubt," he said.
"The instigators of this scenario have to say what benefit Tehran could extract from the assassination of the Saudi ambassador to the United States," he added.
The deputy minister repeated the message of other Iranian officials that the U.S. accusations were likely an attempt to distract attention from America's economic woes and foreign policy setbacks in the Middle East.
He also said that the idea that Iran "is reinforcing its role in the region" and was "handling the nuclear issue without problems and that the sanctions aren't having an effect... certainly pushed (the United States) to use this scenario" to try to weaken Tehran.
Saudi Arabia has called the alleged plot "sinful and abhorrent" but stopped short of naming Iran as the culprit. It said it was looking into unspecified "decisive steps" in response.
Abdullatif al-Zayani, the head of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which represents the Arab states lining the Gulf, said the purported involvement of Tehran was "severely harmful to the relations between GCC member states and Iran."
Iran and Saudi Arabia have long had frosty relations, as both vie to be the predominant Muslim power in the Middle East.
Tensions rose this year even before the alleged plot as Iran protested against Saudi military involvement in helping put down pro-democracy protests in Shiite Bahrain.
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3- The Criminal regime hopes to murder as many innocent civilians as possible since they have had a lot of practice on their own people and the people of the ME and North africa, in order to have the American public rise against the currennt administration and maybe incite the Bipartisan sentiment prevailing.
I think these were the main objectives the Supreme criminal hoped to achieve.
The fact that the Iranian regime has actually dared venture into trying says that they perceive the current administration as weak and unable to defend the country from its likes, which is why the administration's response should by much more harsh and punitive than just words. The Saudis are on the frontline with this criminal terrorist regime that is busy building a nuclear weapon, they cannot afford to believe these Iranian absurd lies about it being a hoaks. A lot is at stake they should lock steps with the free world...
The Evidence against the Criminal Iranian regime is overwhelming, no amount of lies and denial can get the Iranian regime out of the hot water now. As to what the Iranian were hoping to achieve, I think multiple objectives:
1- Try to test the water, and see how impregnable the security measures from the US side, in hope that if the atrocity were to happen, this would indicate to the terrorist groups that the regime either sopnsors (Hezb Ebola) or acts as a cheerleader for and/or sponsors indirectly (Al Qaida), and they hope that would embolden these Iranian sposored terrorist groups to mount further terrorist attacks and have the US get busy with its domestic security so they can have the ME countries to Destabilize and dominate themselves.
2- They also hope to drive a wedge between the US and Saudi by claiming that the US did not provide the required security for the Saudi diplomat or was complaisant about it.
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