Iran “assassination plot” coincides with Trump boasting of own plot

A plan to assassinate the ambassador of another country ought to be a well kept secret, hardly the type of news that you would expect from mainstream media. Yet in the case of the US ambassador to South Africa, this was the case. The publication Politico claimed Iran was looking into assassinating the US Ambassador to South Africa before the US elections in November. US president Donald Trump has stepped up his anti-Iran rhetoric ahead of the November elections. Trump has cited false media reports on the so called “assassination plan” using it as a pretext to threaten Iran with an attack. In a twitter post on Tuesday, Trump threatened to launch an attack “1,000 times greater in magnitude”...