Iran Bores a Hole Through Obama's Sloppy Efforts to Pull a Coup

President Barack Obama's sloppy efforts to pull a British-ordered coup in the United States, and avoid his own impeachment, including by trying to rev up the "attack-Iran" jingoists for yet another provocation, received a set back on Oct. 18 when Tehran pointed its finger at the terrorist group Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) as being at the center of what Washington had charged was an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington.

The new revelations are highly embarassing, to say the least, to the Obama administration. MEK's political arm, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), is listed by the United States as a terrorist organization, and closed the NCRI's Washington office in 2003. But neither Great Britain nor the European Union listed them as terrorists. MEK maintains a headquarters in Paris.

Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency reported today that one of the two suspects the US said were involved in a plot to hire a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir, is a "key member" of an Iranian dissident group, the MEK. "The person in question has been travelling to different countries under the names of Ali Shakuri / Gholam Shakuri / Gholam-Hossein Shakuri by using fake passports, including forged Iranian passports," according to Mehr.

Last week, with some fanfare in a televised news conference, U.S. Attorney General Eric "Fast and Furious" Holder, Jr. said American investigators believed high officials in Iran's government were responsible for the plot. Holder brought charges against an American-Iranian, a used car salesman and abuser of drugs, Mansour Arabsiar, who was arrested at New York's JFK airport on 29 September, and "Gholam Shakuri," an Iranian who remained at large in Iran, according to US officials.

The pair, who the US says were the main culprits behind the alleged Iranian murder-for-hire plot, were identified in a sting operation involving the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Shakuri was described by the US as a member of Iran's Quds Force, a special unit of the country's elite Revolutionary Guards, tasked with overseas operations.

But Mehr said Interpol "has found new evidence" that suggests Shakuri is associated with the MEK and "was last seen in Washington and Camp Ashraf in Iraq where [MEK] members are based." Camp Ashraf or Ashraf City is situated northeast of the Iraqi town of Khalis, about 120 kilometers west of the Iranian border and 60 kilometers north of Baghdad, and is the seat of the terrorist group, MEK, in Iraq.

What does Obama have to say about this, now?