South African intelligence does not think there is a 'discernible threat' by Iran to assassinate the US ambassador to South Africa, as US intelligence agencies are reported to believe. Some analysts say that the news of the alleged plot is a ploy by US President Donald Trump to help him win re-election on 3 November.
According to a report in the US journal Politico, quoting two anonymous US officials, Tehran has contemplated killing ambassador Lana Marks to avenge America's assassination in January of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, head of the country's crack Quds Force -- a unit of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
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