U.S. officials on Tuesday said that they had foiled an elaborate terrorist plot backed by factions of the Iranian government aimed at assassinating the Saudi ambassador to Washington.
At a news conference, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said two Iranians have been charged with conspiracy to murder a foreign official and conspiracy to commit an act of international terrorism, among other charges. One of the suspects, an Iranian with U.S. citizenship, was arrested in New York last month; the other, an Iranian, remains at large.
This is very serious. I am a moderate isolationist and am uncomfortable with all of our country’s military adventurism all over the globe. But this is different. If true, a foreign government has sent spies and assassins to our country to murder diplomats and commit terrorist attacks. That must not go unanswered.