Gary Sick: US Iran claim defies belief

Press TV - Former US National Security Council advisor, Gary Sick, says the US allegations about Iran's involvement in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington are implausible.

“I find this very hard to believe. In fact, this plot, if true, departs from all known Iranian policies and procedures,” Sick wrote on his personal blog, IRNA reported on Thursday.

On Tuesday, the US Justice Department accused Iran of involvement in a scheme to assassinate Saudi Arabian envoy to Washington, Adel Al-Jubeir, with help from a suspected member of a Mexican drug cartel.

“To be sure, Iran has plenty of reasons to be angry at both the United States and Saudi Arabia,” Sick noted, reminding that “the king of Saudi Arabia is reliably reported to have called for the US to bomb Iran.”

The former official also asserted that “Iran has never conducted -- or apparently even attempted -- an assassination or a bombing inside the US.”

Iranian authorities have likewise dismissed Washington's accusation as a smear campaign aimed at sparking Iranophobia in the world and distracting attention from the ongoing wave of the Islamic Awakening in the North Africa and Middle East as well as the underway popular anti-Wall Street protests across the US.