Two Iranians respond to assassination plot

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People in Iran and Iranian-Americans are reacting to news of the United States’s accusation that the Iranian government backed a plan to assassinate a Saudi ambassador on U.S. soil.  Siamak Kalhour  hosts two Persian-language radio programs on the AM radio in Los Angeles. Kalhour  has lived in the U.S. for 30 years and opens his lines to Iranian-Americans daily basis on his radio program. He talks about the developing situation on the foiled terror plot. Dr. Mohammad Marandi  is head of North American studies at the University of Tehran. He believes the assassination is made up by the United States, and says the rest of the world is too quick to believe American lies.

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