Lawmakers Say Assassination Plot Shows Vulnerability of Border

Reported by: Farrah Fazal
Last Update: 10/14 7:19 pm

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Texas lawmakers say an assassination plot by a Texas man shows how vulnerable the border is to terrorism.

Super secretive terrorist trainers is what Iran's Revolutionary Army is. They're called the Quds. They answer to the president of Iran.

Federal prosecutors say Mansoor Arbabsiar got his marching orders to assassinate the Saudi ambassador from the Quds. Arbabsiar thought he was talking to a cartel member in Mexico to arrange the murder for hire plot. He traveled to Reynosa several times from Austin. The cartel member was actually a DEA informant.

“If a guy from Iran shows up with a million and a half, it shows us how many have we missed,â€