If the accusation made against Iran of being behind a plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador in Washington came from the Bush administration, I would have immediately said that this is an American conspiracy to justify a military strike against nuclear installations in Iran. However, the charge was made by the Obama administration. Despite a thousand reservations I may have against it, this administration does not seek to start wars overseas, but is rather trying to end the ones it inherited from the previous administration. Moreover, the charge was announced personally by Attorney General Eric Holder, who is the equivalent of the Justice Minister. The charge came in 21 pages, including names and details about wire transfers. What remains is for us to know whether the plot - which would have claimed the lives of dozens of Americans in a restaurant and Israeli targets if it had been indeed carried out - was planned by a small extremist faction in the Al-Quds Force, one of the five branches in the Revolutionary Guard, or whether higher echelons in the regime were behind it. Iran has strongly denied any involvement in the alleged plot. I find it highly unlikely that Ayatollah Khamenei had anything to do with the it, or that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is aware of it. Instead, I believe, if the American narrative proves correct, that the plot reflects a rift within the Iranian leadership, and the existence of splinter factions as a result of disputes between extremist wings and other more extreme ones, as there is no moderate faction in the current Iranian regime. The Iranian leadership remains responsible even if it is not directly behind a plot that appears as though it is a work of fiction. Even the head of the FBI said that it resembled a Hollywood film script, while the U.S. Secretary of State said that no one could make up a story like that. As for the spokesman for the White House, he admitted that it was uncharacteristically bold, and a liberal writer insisted that it was fake, fake, fake. If I am to add more to the above, I would say that if it is proven that a faction within the Iranian regime planned to murder Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir, this means that the regime has offered its own head on a silver platter to the U.S. administration and Israel…In other words, the enemies of Iran could not find strong excuses to attack Iran, so the Iranian regime then said: Do not look for an excuse, I will provide you with one myself, and the ensuing U.S. threats are sufficient proof. Ambassador Al-Jubeir (again if the American narrative proves correct) cannot have been targeted for who he is. He is a professional diplomat who executes his country's policy, and does not make it. The target therefore is Saudi Arabia, amid increasing regional competition over influence as we see now in Bahrain and Syria, and Iran's attempts to impose its control on the Gulf, an impossible ambition, for all Shiite Muslims in the world do not exceed ten percent of Muslims, and Shiite Arabs are no more than ten percent of Arab Muslims. The new alliance between Egypt and Turkey creates a regional bloc of 150 million Sunni Muslims in the face of Iran's 70 million Shiites, and if we add Saudi Arabia to this alliance, as well as the other GCC countries, then this bloc would bring together more than 200 million Sunni Muslims in the face of Iran. Dividing Muslims into Sunnis, Shiites, Salafis, Secularists and sundry other categories is an Israeli dream. But with its impossible ambitions and pursuit of violence, the Iranian regime serves the enemies of Muslims in ways it is not aware of, or chooses not to be aware of. The charge against Iran gave the enemies the chance to attack Hezbollah and Hamas by virtue of their links to Iran. For the thousandth time, I say that I have a thousand objections to Hezbollah's involvement in internal Lebanese politics, and Hamas's separate administration in Gaza. However, I also say for the thousandth time that both Hezbollah and Hamas are national liberation movements confronting Israeli terrorism, and that they would not have even existed were it not for this terrorism, occupation and murder of the elderly, women and children. The supporters of Israel, i.e. the partners in her crimes, chose to believe the plot immediately, and started citing previous terrorist attacks that were attributed to Iran and its allies, such as the murder of Saudi diplomats and a businessman in Thailand, the murder of four Iranians in a restaurant in Berlin, and the destruction of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, as well as the bombing of a building housing U.S. soldiers in Al-Khobar in which 17 Americans were killed and which was carried out by the Saudi-Iranian Hezbollah. However, all these attacks date back to the nineties, so did the regime in Tehran decide to resume such operations to avenge the murder of four Iranian nuclear scientists in the past four years? If this is true, then what does this have to do with Adel al-Jubeir or Saudi Arabia? There are many other questions awaiting a convincing answer.
