{"id":5147,"date":"2011-10-13T12:09:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T10:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/?p=5147"},"modified":"2011-10-13T12:10:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T10:10:39","slug":"ein-iranischer-anschlag-in-den-usa-geplant-von-einem-messie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2011\/10\/13\/ein-iranischer-anschlag-in-den-usa-geplant-von-einem-messie_5147","title":{"rendered":"Ein iranischer Anschlag in den USA – geplant von einem Messie?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ich hoffe wirklich inst\u00e4ndig, dass Juan Cole nicht<\/strong> Recht hat mit seiner Vermutung, dass der angebliche iranische Plot zur Ermordung eines saudischen Diplomaten in den USA ein Hoax ist.<\/p>\n

Wenn der Iran aber wirklich auf solche Verschw\u00f6rer angewiesen sein sollte, wenn die gef\u00fcrchteten Quds-Brigaden also tats\u00e4chlich mit solchen Losern zusammen arbeiten m\u00fcssten, w\u00e4re das allerdings irgendwie auch beruhigend.<\/p>\n

Aber so vieles an dem Hauptverschw\u00f6rer Arbabsiar erscheint unglaubw\u00fcrdig, dass es wirklich haarstr\u00e4ubend ist zu denken, dass die Achse des B\u00f6sen auf so einen zur\u00fcckgreifen sollte.<\/p>\n

Juan Cole<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I personally do not understand how the corporate media in the US can report the following things about Manssor Arbabsiar <\/a> and then go on to repeat with a straight face the US government charges that he was part of a high-level Iranian government assassination plot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It seems pretty obvious that Arbabsiar is very possibly clinically insane.<\/p>\n

Here are the top 10 reasons that he cannot be Iran\u2019s answer to 007:<\/p>\n

10. Arbabsiar was known in Corpus Christi, Texas, \u201cfor being almost comically absent-minded\u201d<\/p>\n

9. Possibly as a result of a knife attack in 1982, he suffered from bad short-term memory<\/p>\n

8. He was always losing his cell phone<\/p>\n

7. He was always misplacing his keys<\/p>\n

6. He was always forgetting his briefcase and documents in stores<\/p>\n

5. He \u201cwas just not organized,\u201d a former business partner remarked<\/p>\n

4. As part owner of a used car dealership, he was always losing title deeds to the vehicles<\/p>\n

3. Arbabsiar, far from a fundamentalist Shiite Muslim, may have been an alcoholic; his nickname is \u201cJack\u201d because of his fondness for Jack Daniels whiskey<\/p>\n

2. Arbabsiar used to<\/a> not only drink to excess, but also used pot and went with prostitutes. He once talked loudly in a restaurant about going back to Iran, where he could have an Iranian girl for only $50. He was rude and was thrown out of some establishments.<\/p>\n

1. All of his businesses failed one after another<\/p>\n

The downward trajectory of Arbabsiar\u2019s life, with his recent loss of his mortgage, all his businesses, and his second wife, along with his obvious cognitive defect, suggests to me that he may have been descending into madness.<\/p>\n

I hypothesized yesterday that Arbabsiar and his cousin Gholam Shakuri might have been part of an Iranian drug gang. But after these details have emerged about the former, I don\u2019t think he could even have done that. Indeed, I have now come to view the entire story as a fantasy.<\/p>\n

That a monumental screw-up like Arbabsiar could have thought he was a government secret agent is perfectly plausible. I\u2019m sure he thought all kinds of things. But that he was actually one is simply not believable.<\/p>\n

OK, Qasim Soleimani, the head of the Qods Brigade special operation forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, may not be a nice man. But he is such a competent man that US officials in Iraq widely believed that he repeatedly outmaneuvered and defeated them there.<\/p>\n

The allegation that Soleimani was running a hard-drinking incompetent with no memory and no sense of organization like Arbabsiar on the most delicate and dangerous terrorist mission ever attempted by the Islamic Republic of Iran is falling down funny.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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