The allegations of an Iranian plot met with a stream of disbelief from a number of foreign officials and analysts.

This deepening mood of hostility between the two countries no doubt also explains the recent Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Washington.

Venezuela's consul general in Miami has been expelled by the US amid reports linking her to an alleged Iranian plot to target sensitive American facilities with cyber attacks.

A few weeks later Azerbaijan arrested 22 people in a suspected Iranian plot against Israeli and US targets in Azerbaijan.

However, demands for reform soon became clouded by ancient Persian-Shia and Arab-Sunni rivalries and the government's insistence that calls for reform were an Iranian plot.

And if it has some truth to it, or in relation to a similar Iranian plot, what would it change?

Sinister figures appear, and the reader learns that the falcon is an important element of an Iranian plot to kill the ruler.

May 1 - Egypt security services foil an alleged Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Cairo.

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In October of last year, the US said it had uncovered a Iranian plot to murder the Saudi ambassador to Washington.