Good idea.
What's shocking to us is that the CIA didn't closely examine this guy as the future ruler of Iran. If they can't even catch this, they're even more ineffective than I thought.
Ping! We've been looking at the wrong Iranian.
What makes you think they didn't catch this? What would they have done when they did? I pretty sure the name itself set off red flags all over the place. I wonder if this cat is on the No Fly list.
That was my first question too. How could they not know?
Then my second was, what if they did?
The diverse possibilities make my head hurt.
The CIA seems to be a joke. The rumours of it's "all knowing, all seeing" abilities are nothing but pure fantasy.
They did catch it. Support for the war on terror is fading in this country. The government needs a new event to stoke it. How about war with Iran? Rekindle all of the anger from 1979 and seeing our people bound and degraded on the TV, that ought to do it. War with Iran will be a much easier sell here if this guy is the President.
What makes you think they, and others, did not know that the former Mayor of Tehran was one of the hostage takers?