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Iran Special: How Bahrain's Foreign Minister Fed "The Plot" to Top Washington Post Columnist
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 23:54 | Scott Lucas in EA Middle East and Turkey, Journalism and Media, Middle East and Iran
Earlier this week we wrote of how David Ignatius, the star columnist of The Washington Post, was being used by US and Saudi officials to spin the story of the Iranian plot to kill the Saudi Ambassador to Washington.
Indeed, Ignatius was doing much more: he put out the claim that Tehran was behind the slaying of a Saudi official in Pakistan (on 16 May in one paragraph of Ignatius' story, in July in another paragraph). Iran was involved in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and threats against Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to Beirut. And Gholam Shakuri, the Qods Force officer indicted in The Plot, "had helped organize militant Shiite protesters in Bahrain".
And now the rest of the story....