Posted on 10/04/2023 1:44:50 PM PDT by bitt
The Biden administration’s now-suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley helped to fund, support, and direct an Iranian intelligence operation designed to influence the United States and allied governments, according to a trove of purloined Iranian government emails. The emails, which were reported on by veteran Wall Street Journal correspondent Jay Solomon, writing in Semafor, and by Iran International, the London-based émigré opposition outlet which is the most widely read independent news source inside Iran, were published last week after being extensively verified over a period of several months by the two outlets. They showed that Malley had helped to infiltrate an Iranian agent of influence named Ariane Tabatabai into some of the most sensitive positions in the U.S. government—first at the State Department and now the Pentagon, where she has been serving as chief of staff for the assistant secretary of defense for special operations, Christopher Maier.
On Thursday, Maier told a congressional committee that the Defense Department is “actively looking into whether all law and policy was properly followed in granting my chief of staff top secret special compartmented information.”
The emails, which were exchanged over a period of several years between Iranian regime diplomats and analysts, show that Tabatabai was part of a regime propaganda unit set up in 2014 by the Iranian Foreign Ministry. The Iran Experts Initiative (IEI) tasked operatives drawn from Iranian diaspora communities to promote Iranian interests during the clerical regime’s negotiations with the United States over its nuclear weapons program. Though several of the IEI operatives and others named in the emails have sought to portray themselves on social media as having engaged with the regime in their capacity as academic experts, or in order to promote better understanding between the United States and Iran, none has questioned the veracity of the emails.
The contents of the emails are damning, showing a group of Iranian American academics being recruited by the Iranian regime, meeting together in foreign countries to receive instructions from top regime officials, and pledging their personal loyalty to the regime. They also show how these operatives used their Iranian heritage and Western academic positions to influence U.S. policy toward Iran, first as outside “experts” and then from high-level U.S. government posts. Both inside and outside of government, the efforts of members of this circle were repeatedly supported and advanced by Malley, who served as the U.S. government’s chief interlocutor with Iran under both the Obama and the Biden administrations. Malley is also the former head of the International Crisis Group (ICG), which directly paid and credentialed several key members of the regime’s influence operation.
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Did the Big Guy get his 10%?
He probably was being directed/operating out of Martha’s Vineyard…
How isn’t this treason?
Did the ringleader have the initials BHO with his middle name being Hussein?
Val Jar is very unhappy.
I’m guessing NOFORN classifications are less frequent than they used to be in this new NEOCON/GLOBALIST era.
After the appropriate fair trial, publicly execute him.
Valerie Jarrett
Peter Strokh
Who else ?
This is puzzling. Some nobody gets named after all the REAL damage done by … “others”.
Malley loves him some Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood.
No way John Kerry isn’t involved in lovin’ on Iran’s mullahs and their Middle Eastern and American stooges.
Jao Bai-din is already owned.
So the Democrats are covering up their own Iran Contra scandal now? Malley is probably being paid big bucks to take the dive to protect the big fish behind all of this!
No but he had to shutdown their white house office.
No way John Kerry isn’t involved in lovin’ on Iran’s mullahs and their Middle Eastern and American stooges.
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I thought I read that kerry’s SIL is iranian, who’s uncle is connected to US port of jacksoville FL?
Valerie Jarrett
Peter Strokh
Who else ?
This is puzzling. Some nobody gets named after all the REAL damage done by … “others”.
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forgot that peter strozk also had iranian family ties
That ship sailed back in the 2000s when Bush and Obama both decided it was racist to not allow foreign muslim extremists to look at our intelligence on foreign muslim extremists.
On the Ariane Tabatabai family: Sadeq Tabatabaei - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadeq_Tabatabaei
Sadeq Tabatabaei (Persian: صادق طباطبایی; 25 March 1943 – 21 February 2015) was an Iranian writer, journalist, TV host, university professor at the University of Tehran and politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1979 to 1980. He was also Deputy Minister of the Interior... Tbatabaei was born on 12 December 1943 in the city of Qom. He was the son of Ayatollah Mohammad-Bagher Tabatabaei and nephew of Musa al-Sadr. During studying, Tabatabaei met with Mehdi Bazargan and joined his party, Freedom Movement. He became a supporter of Ruhollah Khomeini and published many articles about him...
I don’t know who’s the bad guy here. US government and Iran are both warring against Americans.
I don’t know who’s the bad guy here. US government and Iran are both warring against Americans.
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maybe those two area in cahoots?
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