DOJ Offers No More Detail on Scary Iran Plot in Indictment

I had this naive hope that DOJ would use the opportunity of an indictment to fill in some of the holes in their case.

Like I said, naive hope.

The indictment appears to be the amended complaint, without the affidavit, with an arrest warrant for Gholam Shakuri.

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9 replies
  1. BoxTurtle says:

    I had this naive hope

    BARTENDER! I’ll have whatever this lady is drinking!

    Boxturtle (I am unaware of anyone who actually believes the story DoJ is trying to sell)

  2. MadDog says:

    The only thing I find interesting at all about the indictment is the forfeiture section. Could it be that under the guise of conviction under this indictment that the US will take the assets in some supposed non-Iranian account or accounts?

    An account or accounts that have either significant assets and/or are used for other than the directly charged activities of the named and unnamed defendants?

    Other than the asset forfeiture, you nailed it EW. A big “yawn”.

  3. BoxTurtle says:

    @MadDog: They want his used cars?!?

    The government deserves compliments for managing to keep this out of court. The cross exam of their witnesses would have been brutal.

    Boxturtle (Wonder if the defense could get those wire transfer records tossed)

  4. emptywheel says:

    @b: Thanks.

    Though their comments about transparency suggest we’re not showing them evidence either.

    And I had thought Turkey’s invasion of Iraq yesterday might be part of the big plot here. I guess not.

  5. b says:

    Though their comments about transparency suggest we’re not showing them evidence either.

    From the piece I linked:

    Turkish media reported this week that the United States had sent representatives to Turkey to present evidence of the alleged plot and discuss the allegations with Turkish officials.

    The Turks have seen the presented evidence but it was unconvincing.

  6. Bob Schacht says:

    @emptywheel: “And I had thought Turkey’s invasion of Iraq yesterday might be part of the big plot here.”

    I imagine this must have been hot pursuit after some Kurds. The Kurds may be the largest ethnic minority in the world who don’t have their own State: They are split between Iraq, Turkey, and Iran. They speak an Indo-european language, not Arabic, and one of the greatest military figures in all of Middle Eastern history was Saladin, an arabized Kurd who beat the Christian Crusaders, and ruled an enlarged Syria and all the way to Egypt. Kurdistan was divided up this way after WW I because the war powers were afraid of what a unified Kurdistan might do.

    Bob in AZ

  7. Sparkles the Iguana says:

    Sometimes Pat Buchanan says something so perfect you just have to chuckle. Speaking about Scary Iran Plot on McLaughlin Group, he says it smells like a fish, and:

    “The neocons are gassin’ up the Enola Gay….”

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