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Top Tehran TV journalist wanted by FBI for 1980 murder in the US
9/4/2009, 8:54:31 AM · by nuconvert · 7 replies · 517+ views
TimesOnline - UK ^ | September 4, 2009
An American fugitive, accused of murdering an aide to the late Shah of Iran in the United States, was made an editor of Iran’s English-language television network in Tehran. Hassan Abdulrahman, who is wanted by the FBI for shooting dead Ali Akbar Tabatabai in Maryland, worked for Iran’s flagship broadcaster Press TV, which has bureaus across the world, including London. A Press TV journalist who resigned in protest over the channel’s coverage of the apparently rigged Iranian election in June told The Times yesterday that Mr Abdulrahman was chief editor at the head office of the network. The journalist, who...

Mueller may have a conflict — and it leads directly to a Russian oligarch
5/14/2018, 4:14:54 PM · by SoFloFreeper · 19 replies
The sHill ^ | 5/14/18 | John Solomon
...In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI, the bureau asked Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to spend millions of his own dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007.

To: nuconvert
A former press attache of the Iranian Embassy in Washington, under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Tabatabai was shot dead by David Belfield, an African-American Muslim.
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7 posted on 9/29/2012, 1:38:41 AM by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Salahuddin aka David Belfield aka Hassan Abdulrahman

8 posted on 9/29/2012, 1:56:04 AM by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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In the months before the election of Barack Obama in 2008, Mr. Deripaska turned to a lobbyist with Democratic connections, Adam Waldman, who served in the Justice Department under President Bill Clinton. Mr. Waldman earned $40,000 a month to help the oligarch with visa issues, as well as with business matters like aluminum trade talks and an unsuccessful bid to buy European operations from General Motors. Mr. Waldman helped him arrange various trips, including to attend a Wall Street Journal-sponsored summit meeting of top business executives in Washington. He also later arranged meetings between Mr. Deripaska and George Soros, the wealthy Democratic donor, to discuss anticorruption efforts in the mining industry in Guinea, where Rusal is a major player, according to people familiar with the meetings. Hoping to show that he could be useful to the United States, Mr. Deripaska used his connections and resources at one point in a thwarted effort to help Washington win the release of a hostage in Iran. In the weeks before the 2016 election, Mr. Deripaska rebuffed an approach from the F.B.I., which was seeking his help in the early stages of the inquiry into Russian meddling. . .: Andrew Higgins and Kenneth P. Vogel, "Two Capitals, One Russian Oligarch: How Oleg Deripaska Is Trying to Escape U.S. Sanctions" (New York Times, 11/04/2018)

Try the name Daoub or something like that re the suspect. Also try “Donald Cox”, Black Panther Party leader as a prime suspect in the Tabatabai assassination.

More to this story than anyone knows. I’ll try to fill in some details when you check out the two names I gave you.

Speaking of oligarchs/mafia involved in tobacco... Levinson went to Iran reportedly on behalf of British American Tobacco...

A Tobacco-Based COVID-19 Vaccine? Let’s Hope It Doesn’t Go Up In Smoke.
5/17/2020, 12:10:21 AM · by SeekAndFind · 14 replies
Hotair ^ | 05/16/2020 | Jazz Shaw
In the race to come up with a viable vaccine for the novel coronavirus, many groups around the world have been diving into the effort with a great sense of urgency. Various hospitals, universities and even bio-tech companies (some of whom have never produced a vaccine before) have gotten in on the action. But I’ll confess that I didn’t anticipate hearing about tobacco companies entering the competition. And yet, here we are. One of the biggest tobacco companies in the world, British American Tobacco, has somehow developed a vaccine that they say shows great promise and they’re ready to...