More on the thwarted plot by Iranian elements to attack Saudi Envoy to US and Saudi and Israeli embassies in US and elsewhere.

One of those named has links to the IRGC. The other is still on the loose.

The case started when one of the suspects, who lived in Texas, made contact with an undercover DEA informant and asked for assistance from the Zetas drug cartel in Mexico to assassinate the ambassador, the sources said.

ABC News reported that Arbabsiar was the one who made contact. A source said he reportedly claimed he was being “directed by high-ranking members of the Iranian government,” including a cousin who was “a member of the Iranian army but did not wear a uniform.”

Arbabsiar allegedly wired $50,000 to the informant as a down payment on a $1.5 million assassination fee.