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epa02962414 FBI Director Robert Mueller (L) and Attorney General Eric Holder (R)announce that two individuals have been charged for their alleged participation in a plot to murder the Saudi Ambassador during a press conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC USA 11 October 2011. A criminal complaint filed today in the Southern District of New York charges Manssor Arbabsiar, a 56-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen holding both Iranian and U.S. passports, and Gholam Shakuri, an Iran-based member of Iran’s Qods Force, which is a special operations unit of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that is said to sponsor and promote terrorist activities abroad. EPA/SHAWN THEW