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President even commented on the situation there. so those in the state department and elsewhere that want age gaugement with iran, this conspiracy certainly suggests we should not have any engagement with them, we should step up our activities to undermine that government, to isolate it, and obviously, it s a country that s trying to develop nucleolar weapons right now, and our allies, like israel and even saudi arabia, are deeply, deeply concerned about a nucleolar-armed iran. megyn: now, obviously, i would expect that you you tell me, but that the iranian government will deny any role in this and it looks like from the initial reports this man was claiming he was directed by members of the high ranking iranian government. i guess we ll hear from eric holder whether we believe that is in fact the case, but if we get a situation where our government makes the allegation and the iranians deny it, do we take any action, based on ....
To the dea and fbi a plot to assassinate the saudi ambassador. it is a plot by a nationalized american citizen, an iranian-born citizen. he is from corpus christi, texas. he met earlier this year down in texas and on the mexico border in mcallen texas with somebody that he thought was a member of the zetas mexican cartel, and he began a procedure where he was trying to get, get their help in assassinating the saudi ambassador. of the fbi has logged him, has tracked him for the last few months, and we re going to hear more details about this case. but the plot involved not only assassinating the saudi arabian ambassador, but also blowing up the saudi embassy as well as the israeli embassy here in washington, megyn. megyn: now, do they believe that this man actually worked for the iranian government, jennifer, or ....
Kopp and edward kim, along with michael farbiarge michael strausser, richard zable and jonathan pilabner, none of the people that have been mentioned by me and others have gotten much sleep lately, and we re all safer because of it. today s charges should make crystal clear that we will not let other countries use our soil as their battle ground. thank you. any questions you might have? when you say you re going to continue to hold iran accountable, what exactly do you mean by that? well, we ll be working with our colleagues at the white house, at the state department, at the treasury department, and they will be taking further action which they will be making more will be making known in the next few hours. to be clear, mr. attorney general, to what degree are you saying that the iranian government was complicit? did they know about this at the outset, did they direct it, order it, what exactly ....
Between ahmadinejad, the military and the clerics. frankly, you know, i ve been reading and hearing about these conflicts within the iranian government since the carter administration, since i was in office in the reagan administration, so i don t give it a whole lot of credence. i don t think something like this happens at this level with this potential for real disaster if it goes wrong, which it seems to have done, unless it was something sanctioned by a good bit of the leadership of the iranian government. megyn: and i want to pick up on your point then if this is or can be considered an act of war, what does that mean? is that a decision that our government will make, whether to use that terminology? and if they do, does that not raise the stakes? it raises the stakes enormously. what are things that we might do other than sanctions? i mean, we can scold them, but that s not very effective. we could put a blockade around iran. europe, certainly, if iran continues with its nuclea ....
Responsible for having killed more americans than any other country. obviously we ve been dealing with al-qaeda rose recently but iran goes back to the bombing of our marine barracks in beirut in 1983 with 240 people killed, they bombed the israeli embassy in argentina. this should not come as a surprise to us that iran has deeply engaged in acts of terrorism. megyn: well, neil, this raises all sorts of questions. i mean, if in fact the iranian government was behind this, or connected to it, as this arab-siar seems to claim, what does that mean for our u.s. government, our policy with respect to iran and what we do next? we ve been very wishy washy on iran. initially, the obama administration wanted to have a dialogue with the mullahs in tehran and later during the iranian spring and demonstrations in iran, we waited weeks before the ....