EU sanctions five people for Saudi ambassador ‘plot’

failed bid to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in the United States.
“Following the foiled plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US, the Council today subjected five persons to EU restrictive measures aimed at combating terrorism,” the EU said in a statement.
It did not name those targeted or state their nationalities but said that “their financial assets in the EU will be frozen and that no funds may be made available to them.”
A grand jury in New York on Thursday indicted two Iranian men suspected of plotting to hire Mexican gangsters to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington.
Iran has strongly denied any involvement in what the United States said was a plot by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ elite Quds force to kill the ambassador by hiring assassins from a Mexican drug cartel for US$1,5 million. – AFP.

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