wednesday october 12th. american officials are outraged and say iran will pay. this texas used car salesman is the unlikely suspect in an alleged assassination plot backed by iran. the u.s. claims that mons orr arbab arbabsiar was going to kill the ambassador of the united states. saying ar baubs yea wanted to blow up a restaurant killing the diplomat and potentially many americans right along with him. officials gathered in washington and gathered the diplomatic corps at the state department to ensure them they are safe. the obama administration is also deciding how to respond to iran. it s an outrage that violated one of the fundamental premises of which nations deal and that is the sanctity and safety of their diplomats. this is really over the top. they have to be held accountable. the u.s. linking the alleged plot to the elite quds force that is part of iran s revolutionary gad, but it is far from clear if quds was acting on its own or from top iranian leaders. iran
reporter: well, the plot was under way for many months, and it got so far that money was actually transferred for an assassination. what the iranians didn t know, piers, was the person they hired to carry this out was a dea informant working for the u.s. government. so it was never actually going to take place. but that was a massive stroke of luck, presumably. reporter: absolutely. once this dea informant was contacted by the iranians, the fbi was brought in. what we know tracing the timeline was the president was notified in june. the arrest of the naturalized u.s. citizen, the iranian we all have a mug shot of now was on september 29th. so it unfolded over the course of about four months where u.s. law enforcement was tracking it for all that time. secretary of state clinton said today the idea that they would attempt to go to a mexican drug cartel to solicit murder for hire to kill the saudi ambassador, nobody can make it up. it is an extraordinarily outrageously
against iran in response to an alleged iranian plot to murder saudi arabia s ambassador to the united states. two men have now been charged including an iranian-american. one of the men still at large. attorney general eric holder spells out the charges against them. the united states is committed to holding iran accountable for its actions. they re charged with conspiracy to murder a foreign official, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, and conspiracy to commit an act of international terrorism, among other charges. u.s. officials say the plot never really got off the ground because the two suspects were dealing with u.s. government informant. more now on the events as they unfolded from our foreign affairs correspondent, jill dougherty. reporter: the united states and the obama administration are treating this as a very big deal. immediately, the treasury department came out and said that it was sanctioning five top people who they say allegedly were conne
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