{"id":16209,"date":"2011-10-13T05:44:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T11:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16209"},"modified":"2011-10-13T05:44:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T11:44:58","slug":"john-glaser-no-direct-evidence-of-iranian-government-complicity-in-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16209","title":{"rendered":"John Glaser: No Direct Evidence of Iranian Government Complicity in Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Obama administration continues to claim the Iranian government helped orchestrate the plot, while admitting evidence is lacking<\/p>\n<p>by John Glaser, October 12, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>United States officials in the Obama administration and Justice Department have explicitly claimed that Iran\u2019s supreme leader and the Quds Force covert operations unit were likely aware of the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2011\/10\/11\/us-ties-iran-to-assassination-plot-in-fbi-sting\/\">so-called terror plot to kill Saudi Arabia\u2019s ambassador to the United States<\/a>. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/10\/12\/us-usa-iran-plot-idUSTRE79B7VO20111012\">evidence of that is lacking and many officials have admitted there are gaps<\/a> in their understanding of the plot.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration has combatively\u00a0blamed the highest echelons of the Iranian government and promised impending consequences, despite the fact that there is no solid information about \u201cexactly how high it goes,\u201d as one official put it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2011\/10\/12\/no-direct-evidence-of-iranian-government-complicity-in-arbabsiar-plot\/\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;No Direct Evidence of Iranian Government Complicity in Plot&#8221; by John Glaser<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration continues to claim the Iranian government helped orchestrate the plot, while admitting evidence is lacking by John Glaser, October 12, 2011 United States officials in the Obama administration and Justice Department have explicitly claimed that Iran\u2019s supreme &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16209\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4dr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16211,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16209\/revisions\/16211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}