Manssor Arbabsiar, the former used car dealer who was arrested last year in what the U.S. government alleged was a plot led by members of the Iranian military to have a Mexican drug cartel assassin kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S., pleaded guilty to three counts on Wednesday.
Arbabsiar will face a maximum of 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of commissioning a murder-for-hire, conspiring to commission a murder-for-hire and conspiring to commit an offense againse the U.S.
“A little more than a year after his arrest, Manssor Arbabsiar has admitted to his role in a deadly plot approved by members of the Iranian military to assassinate a sitting foreign Ambassador on U.S. soil,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.
