Even in late October, the heat in Corpus Christi shimmers on the streets, changing the perspective creating that little illusion of things not being quite as they seem.
The south Texas town normally enjoys the last of the summer tourists around now but this week has seen an influx of journalists, keen to find out more about the man at the centre of an Iranian backed plot to kill diplomats in the US.
The federal indictment says the 56-year-old Mansoor Arbabsiar who was born in Iran was recruited by elements of the country's Elite Al Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard to buy the support of a Mexican Drug cartel to carry out an assassination in Washington.
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