(Washington Post) Editorial - The FBI's charging documents outline some substantial evidence, including the transfer of $100,000 to a bank account that Mansour Arbabsiar believed belonged to a Mexican cartel member. The FBI also recorded phone conversations between Arbabsiar and a man in Tehran he identified as an operative of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. What's more, the alleged plot is not a large leap from Tehran's past acts. The Obama administration can hardly be suspected of manufacturing this story to seek out a confrontation with Iran. In fact, its evident eagerness to curtail U.S. military operations abroad may have encouraged some in Tehran to believe that an attack on U.S. soil would not risk a serious response.
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