But if not any of those things, one's left believing the attempt was serious, that the Iranians, or more accurately the Guard's Quds Force, had some strategy in mind here that actually made sense to them - which would mean Iran just bumped itself up a few notches on the 'things that really worry the shit outta me' chart.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
This Iranian assassination story is odd, as in doesn't appear to make any sense - what would the Iranian Republican Guard have to gain by killing a Saudi diplomat on American soil? To compromise Ahmadinejad, possibly - but the serious fallout invited seems to make the prize not worth the risk. Possibly all just an elaborate setup to trick the US into making a false accusation - that's intriguing, but if true seems to me the Iranians would already be leaking info in support of that gambit, and not seeing that. Could I guess just be some rogue operative or lose canon who took it upon himself to start a war between Iran and Saudi Arabia - but if that were the case I would guess US authorities would be aware of the 'off the reservation' nature of the scheme and therefore have kept it quiet in order to stave off the tensions now on the rise. Couldn't possibly be Obama inflating things for some dubious political gain, could it? Hard to believe that since it'd be a really stupid thing to do.
