verizon is the nation fastest and most reliable 4g network. verizon. built so you can rule the air. megyn: fox news alert. we are now live in washington, as we await a news conference by the u.s. attorney general, eric holder and head of the fbi, robert mueller, we expect them to be revealing details of a significant terror plot that has been thwarted, targeting different institutions inside of the united states. we understand the conference will begin momentarily, and this is what we know so far about the plot. that it involves iran and plans to bomb the saudi and israeli embassies in washington, d.c., as well as to reportedly assassinate a saudi ambassador to the united states. so far, now we are being told two men have been charged in the plot, one, a naturalized u.s. citizen from iran, and we will have
they don t care. megyn: has its eye on the united states, and that s been clear. well, we ve had sanctions, but we ve been unable to get a lot of other countries to go ahong. presumably, we re going to ramp up efforts on sanctions. technically, you could construe this as an act of war. now, you could make a lot of excuses saying, well, it wasn t the iranian government, it was parts of the iranian government. megyn: well, speak to that. before you go on and finish that point, speak to that. there s the iranian revolutionary guard, and then ahmadinejad and the government there. this is the revolutionary guard. yes, this is the quds force which we have designated as a terrorist organization. it s a military, yes, it s also a paramilitary, but it also owns and operates a lot of businesses within iran. so it s like the military industrial complex of iran. now, some scholars have said, look, there s this civil war going on with iran, there s a split between ahmadinejad and the clerics,
with the israelis in the event that the israelis decide to attack iran and take out their nucleolar weapons facility. so this is a very, very dangerous time in the middle east, very dangerous situation with iran, and i don t think that the administration can remain neutral any longer. it really needs to step up its actions to undermine that government. megyn: mahmoud ahmadinejad, the iranian president, has said he would like to see israel wiped off the face of the map, he s made no secret of his feelings towards iran. that clearly says something as well. this plot, we are being told, was not about bombing saudi target in saudi arabia or an israeli target inside israel, but those two targets inside of washingtond.c., inside the united states of america. as well as an assassination of a saudi ambassador to the united states of america.
he didn t know at the time was an undercover fbi bank account. he sent two wire transfers of about $49,000 apiece. the payment for the assassination of the saudi ambassador was supposed to be $1.5 million, but he did manage to send two wire transfers. he also made some telephone calls from iran to the united states. those were recorded by the fbi, we understand. and then on september 28th, he tried to fly back to mexico, where he was going to have a final planning session, we re told, but the mexican authorities didn t allow him into the country. his plane, he was i diverted to new york, when he got off the plane in new york, that s when he was arrested by the fbi. at that point, we understand that he began cooperating with the fbi, the case is under jurisdiction in new york, but those are some of the details we have at this time about how this plot was going to how they eventually caught him. megyn: i want to tell our viewers, we were given a two
conduct assassination attempts on u.s. soil of foreign diplomats, it really puts iran in a whole new rogue state light. now, think about it for a few minutes. iran couldn t get these people in saudi arabia or in israel, right? so they re looking for another country to attack them with. the united states is a hard country to do that in. megyn: right. it would be much easier to find some third world country megyn: so what does that tell you? they want to make a point that they can reach into the united states and do something of that level. so far we ve only seen al-qaeda which has wanted to attack on u.s. soil. but now iran is taking this a whole new level, and so much for, you know, president obama extending the hand of friendship to iran. they don t want any friendship, and thai making it they re making it pretty clear. megyn: you have eric holder saying that the united states is committing to holding iran accountable. what does that mean? sanctions? i mean well, we ve a