Iran blames Saudi plot defendant on outlawed group

Iran said one of the two suspects in a US alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington belongs to the outlawed and armed opposition group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), Fars News Agency reported referring to Mehr News Agency.

“Gholam Shakuri has been traveling to different countries under the names of Ali Shakuri/Gholam Shakuri/Gholam-Hussein Shakuri by using fake passports including forged Iranian passports,” the report said.

The US Justice Department has accused Shakuri and Mansour J. Arbabsiar, a naturalized Iranian-American citizen, of conspiring to hire assassins from a Mexican drug gang for $1.5 million to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States.

(TASS)