impotence of his case. He says that the U.S. government has "accused" Iran of attempting to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington and that Iran has been "implicated" in terror attacks against Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia. But "accused" and "implicated" betray the lack of a case against Iran. Did Canada expel the Iranian diplomats over accusations and implications? But it's worse than that, because the accusations and implications have been exposed, not as more than that, but as less. There is a consensus among experts that Iran had nothing to do with the attempted assassination on U.S. soil of the Saudi ambassador. It is very hard to see what Iran would have to gain by assassinating the Saudi ambassador on U.S. soil other than American strikes, as in past cases of countries who plotted against U.S. targets. As an Iran analyst with the Rand Corporation has said, the plot "doesn't seem to serve Iran's interests in any conceivable way ... [but] would put all of Iran's objectives and strategies at risk." Several experts on the Iranian Quds forces that have been accused of the assassination attempt have pointed out that it is unlikely and uncharacteristic of them to rely on an untrained and untested used cars salesman and a non-Islamic criminal drug gang to carry out such a sensitive operation. Former CIA Middle East officer Robert Baer says the plot does not "measure up to Iran's unsurpassed skill in conducting assassinations." Paul Pillar agrees that this plot is