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GOP lawmakers probe Kamala Harris adviser for ‘connections’ to Iranian influence operation
NY Post ^ | 08/01/2024 | Josh Christenson

Posted on 08/01/2024 11:02:18 AM PDT by DFG

Congressional Republicans are probing Kamala Harris’ national security adviser for “blatantly promoting the Iranian regime’s perspective and interests” and entertaining “connections” to an Iranian influence operation that swept up a now-suspended State Department official and three of his aides.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) wrote a letter to the vice president on Wednesday demanding answers to questions about the adviser, Philip Gordon, who co-authored op-eds with one of the aides to suspended Iran special envoy Robert Malley and Malley himself — both of whom were involved in the Iranian influence campaign.

“Since last year, I have demanded accountability from the Department of Defense for allowing Iranian regime acolytes to infiltrate high-level government staff,” Stefanik told The Post.

“The Biden-Harris Administration policy of appeasing Iran and abandoning Israel will only worsen if Kamala Harris and her Iranian apologist staff are elevated. I am proud to join Senator Cotton to demand accountability,” she said.

The aide, Ariane Tabatabai, helped found the Iran Experts Initiative, which coordinated with senior Iranian Foreign Ministry officials to influence negotiations on the Iran nuclear deal starting in 2014, and was also involved in a “covert campaign” to smear a prominent opposition group resisting the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

She still serves in the Biden administration at the Pentagon as a chief of staff to the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low intensity conflict.

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TOPICS: Iran
KEYWORDS: arianetabatabai; cotton; elisestefanik; iei; initiative; iran; iranexperts; isis; lloydaustin; malley; mek; robertmalley; stefanik; tabatabai

1 posted on 08/01/2024 11:02:18 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

ooohhhhhh....maybe we will get some strongly worded letters....


2 posted on 08/01/2024 11:03:19 AM PDT by wny
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To: DFG

3 posted on 08/01/2024 11:05:59 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: DFG
GOP Lawmakers Probe ...

You can stop reading right there.

4 posted on 08/01/2024 11:11:34 AM PDT by edwinland
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To: DFG; SunkenCiv
“The Biden-Harris Administration policy of appeasing Iran and abandoning Israel will only worsen if Kamala Harris and her Iranian apologist staff are elevated.

ping

5 posted on 08/01/2024 11:20:03 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Kamala is the classic “kiss up punch down” boss: -- Freeper cgbg)
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To: DFG

Here’s how it works:

Nations hostile to The United States pay off The Democrat Crime Families (Clinton’s, Schumer, Pelosi, Bidens, Soros, etc…) to do their dirty work.

The Democrat Crime Families then issue orders to The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate and their subunits (press, unions, education gang, social causes, government bureaucrats, etc…).

Anyone who still supports the Democrats has a criminal heart, mind and soul and helps countries that want to destroy them.


6 posted on 08/01/2024 11:21:24 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: blueunicorn6

Yup.


7 posted on 08/01/2024 11:33:54 AM PDT by exnavy
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To: DFG

They want to lose.


8 posted on 08/01/2024 11:36:35 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: DFG

If proven then Kamala will merely say “I was shocked and do not want anyone like that on my staff.”

I think someone should look for anti-semitic statements by Kamala to family or advisors and staff.

Other side has begun the phony “Trump is a racist” stories to smear him. We need a counterbalance.


9 posted on 08/01/2024 11:44:32 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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