Texas Man Pleads Guilty in Iranian Assassination Plot
A former used-car salesman accused of conspiring with Iranians in an audacious murder-for-hire plot pleaded guilty Wednesday to helping plan the assassination of a Saudi diplomat at a posh Georgetown restaurant.
Manssor Arbabsiar, 58, a Texan with dual Iranian and U.S. citizenship, entered the plea in a New York courtroom just over year after his arrest in a case that shocked the world and drove U.S.-Iranian relations to a new low.
Arbabsiar faces up to 25 years in prison for his role in the plot, which U.S. intelligence officials say was part of an unusually brazen attempt by senior Iranian military officials to carry out an act of terrorism on U.S. soil. The scheme unraveled when Arbabsiar attempted to hire a Mexican hit man who turned out to be an undercover informant working for U.S. counternarcotics agents.
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