Attempted Assassination Of Iranian Dissident In New York

Frontpage Mag ^ | May8, 2018 | Kenneth R. Timmerman

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Iranian dissident Mansoor Osanloo, the exiled former head of the bus driver’s union in Tehran, was savagely attacked on Tuesday, May 1, while traveling on a PATH train into New York City, and left for dead.

Multiple assailants sprayed him with a corrosive chemical, then clubbed him in the back of the neck with what appears to have been a tire iron. He lay in a coma for several days and required 17 stitches in his neck.

I spoke with Osanloo on Monday, not long after he awoke from a coma.

“I don’t remember anything,” he said. “But you can see from the pictures that I was sprayed with some kind of a chemical weapon and smashed in the head. This was a terrorist attack.” (photo at link)

Osanloo has been instrumental in planning mass protests across Iran in recent months, and is the most prominent Iranian labor leader, in Iran or in exile. He was traveling to the New York studio of Iran International Television for an interview at the invitation of broadcaster Askar Ramazanzadi.

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“Ametures” - Hillary Clinton

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This is the first I’m hearing about this. What’s going on? American citizens clubbed and kicked by Turkish thugs and now this! We have enemies among us and nobody cares.

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at the invitation of broadcaster Askar Ramazanzadi

Things that make you go hmmmm.

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The Three Amigos

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS)

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Given Iran's significant terror assets in the US and the hemisphere through now ally Hizbollah, this was an amateurish attempt. Maybe not high level government. Stil, it was an attempt in the USA.