May 28, 2012

Joby Warrick reports for the Washington Post:

U.S. officials among the targets of Iran-linked assassination plots

... said a Western diplomat briefed on the assassination plots ...

Many U.S. officials and Middle East experts see ...

The Obama administration has declined ... U.S. officials say ...

... said a senior U.S. official ...

... U.S. intelligence officials believe ...

... according to U.S. and Middle Eastern officials familiar with the incidents ...

... while officials in Washington tried to assess the seriousness of the threats, the officials said ...

... said a former State Department official ...

... according to a Middle East investigator involved in the case ...

... officials said ...

... U.S. and Middle Eastern officials said.

... according to a brief statement issued by the Azerbaijani government ...

The Obama administration acknowledged ...

... said the former State Department official ...

... the Iranian Embassy in Baku suggested in a statement that the plot was fiction.

... Baku officials have ...

... Elin Suleymanov, Azerbaijan’s ambassador to Washington, said in an interview ...

U.S. and Middle Eastern officials say ... U.S. intelligence officials note.

The report presented to U.S. officials ... the reports states.

Israeli and Indian officials have described ...

... said the Western diplomat briefed on the evidence.