{"id":12352,"date":"2012-10-19T14:49:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T13:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news1613067580\/news-sp-256\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/12352-us-iranian-man-pleads-guilty-in-plot-to-kill-saudi-ambassador-to-washington"},"modified":"2023-01-14T05:29:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T04:29:59","slug":"us-iranian-man-pleads-guilty-in-plot-to-kill-saudi-ambassador-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/us-iranian-man-pleads-guilty-in-plot-to-kill-saudi-ambassador-to-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-Iranian man pleads guilty in plot to kill Saudi ambassador to Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"manssor-arbabsiar\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-39060\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/10\/manssor-arbabsiar.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" style=\"float: left;margin-left: 1px;margin-right: 1px\" \/><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Manssor Arbabsiar is shown in this 2001 Nueces County, Texas, Sheriff\u2019s Office photograph released to Reuters on Oct. 11, 2011. Arbabsiar, 56, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen and holds an Iranian passport, was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Sept. 29. (Reuters)<br \/><\/span><\/em>By Al Arabiya and agencies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iranian-American citizen Manssor Arbabsiar pleaded guilty on Wednesday to plotting with the Iranian military to kill the Saudi ambassador to United States.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Appearing at the New York federal court where he had been due to stand trial in January, the Iranian-American entered a surprise guilty plea. He faces up to 25 years in prison at his sentencing, which was set for January 23.<br \/>Judge John Keenan asked Arbabsiar: \u201cIs it true that about the spring of 2011 up until the fall of 2011 that you and your co-conspirators&#8230; who were officials in the Iranian military, that you agreed to cause the assassination of the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States?\u201d<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cYes,\u201d he replied, pleading guilty to three counts.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Arbabsiar was arrested in September last year at New York&#8217;s John F. Kennedy International Airport, triggering a major legal and diplomatic drama between Washington and Tehran, amid already tense relations.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>He was charged along with co-defendant Gholam Shakuri, a senior member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard&#8217;s elite Quds Force, who remains at large.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>They tried to hire a Mexican drug dealer for $1.5 million, first to kidnap the Saudi envoy, then, in a change of plan, to blow him up in a restaurant he frequented in Washington, Arbabsiar said.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>He had arranged for $100,000 to be wired to the United States as a downpayment, not realizing that the supposed assassin he recruited was in fact working for the U.S. authorities.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cIn Mexico we hired a person called &#8216;Junior&#8217; who turned out to be an FBI agent,\u201d Arbabsiar said in court, although officials say \u201cJunior\u201d was in fact a Drug Enforcement Administration informant, not from the FBI.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>A frail looking man with a grey beard and a huge scar across one cheek, Arbabsiar was brought in and out of the courtroom in handcuffs and kept under close watch while he sat at a table with his lawyers.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The former Texas car salesman, who has a grey beard and wore a dark blue prison smock and orange undershirt, seemed nervous and stumbled repeatedly in his answers during the plea procedure.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Asked his age, he looked confused and said, \u201c58, I think.\u201d<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>When Keenan pressured him to confirm clearly that he&#8217;d intended to murder the Saudi diplomat, Arbabsiar finally said: \u201cNo. Yes, yes.\u201d<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Throughout, Arbabsiar alternated between casting worried looks around the courtroom and repeatedly smiling, including at the agents seated alongside the prosecutors.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>In the run-up to what would have been the trial, the defendant underwent a psychological evaluation. However, defense lawyer Sabrina Shroff told the court Wednesday that nothing had been found to hold up the plea.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cWe know of nothing that would address any issue,\u201d she said.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Attorney General Eric Holder said: \u201cThe disruption of this plot should serve as a reminder of the exceptional efforts of our law enforcement and intelligence agencies in protecting America against terrorist attacks.\u201d<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>FBI assistant director Mary Galligan said the plot in the U.S. capital had threatened not only the ambassador but \u201cinnocent lives would have been lost and the national psyche damaged.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cOthers who believe that they can carry out or even attempt to plan such brazen plots should be on notice: the FBI remains ever vigilant towards acts of terror both here and abroad,\u201d Galligan said.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Iran has strongly denied any involvement in what the United States says was a plot by the Quds Force, Iran&#8217;s covert external action unit, to kill the ambassador.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>In a largely symbolic vote last November, the U.N. 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