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High-Level Iranian Spy Ring Busted in Washington
Tablet ^ | 02 October 2023 | Lee Smith

Posted on 10/08/2023 5:00:49 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan

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.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Iran; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; iran; israel; terrorism
Posting another take, in light of the events in Israel over the last 48 hours.

Read it and weep for our country.

1 posted on 10/08/2023 5:00:49 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Barack Hussein Obama, and Valerie Jarrett are saddened.


2 posted on 10/08/2023 5:02:16 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Not relieved to not be included in the roundup?


3 posted on 10/08/2023 5:03:13 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Surprise, surprise the Obama and Biden administration love Iranian spies.


4 posted on 10/08/2023 5:12:06 AM PDT by azkathy (We the people are FED UP-pun intended)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Thank you for posting.


5 posted on 10/08/2023 5:17:55 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (Despthaerately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

“””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.”””

The 1965 international immigrant importation plan guarantees that this is now normal in America.
Countries from all over the world now have millions of American citizens they can count on, if not as spies or congressmen then as voters, lobbyists, and political activists to drive our foreign policy.

I think none of us have even known what our foreign policy is for decades, America is just a chaotic land of competing global cultures and interests now, there is no ‘we’.


6 posted on 10/08/2023 5:18:21 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: EvilCapitalist

John Kerry’s son in law is IRANIAN!


7 posted on 10/08/2023 5:21:37 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

John Kerry, was he arrested?


8 posted on 10/08/2023 5:22:41 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: ansel12

Very well stated.


9 posted on 10/08/2023 5:28:49 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Spy, traitor and lesbian is no way to go through life. When do people hang?

https://www.google.com/search?q=Ariane+Tabatabai&client=ms-android-samsung-rvo1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8


10 posted on 10/08/2023 5:30:21 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Ann Archy

>>>John Kerry’s son in law is IRANIAN!

Is Kerry’s daughter now Shia muslim allowing her to lie?


11 posted on 10/08/2023 5:39:07 AM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: DAC21

“When do people hang?”

Why? Were they Jan 6 protesters? That’s the only acceptable way now


12 posted on 10/08/2023 5:39:34 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Did they arrest John Kerry?


13 posted on 10/08/2023 5:40:53 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Muslim Brohood came to mind. long history there.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3672/muslim-brotherhood-us-government


14 posted on 10/08/2023 5:48:41 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: tired&retired
Did they arrest John Kerry?

That would be nice.

15 posted on 10/08/2023 5:59:46 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: DAC21

“...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.”

Holy cow.


16 posted on 10/08/2023 6:05:06 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Lots of black headlines covering his story in NYT, WaPo, LAT, and even WSJ I guess. /s

One would think this was extremely explosives news considering the release of the $6bn to Iran, and the timing of that event with the Hamas attack yesterday. So far, all quiet, at least in the European papers I read.


17 posted on 10/08/2023 6:20:01 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

If funding the Iranians was a cause for suspension, then Billion Dollar Biden would be out of the White House.


18 posted on 10/08/2023 6:47:11 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
”The Biden administration’s now-suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley helped to fund, support, and direct an Iranian intelligence operation”

Instead of the gas chamber for treason and espionage, he is suspended.

Meanwhile, J6ers are in solitary for wrongthink.

19 posted on 10/08/2023 7:59:02 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: huldah1776; Chad C. Mulligan
From further down the article. Posting here to include names of the guilty, before it gets scrubbed from the Internet.

According to the correspondence, the IEI recruited several U.S.-based analysts, including (Ariane) Tabatabai, Ali Vaez, and Dina Esfandiary, all of whom willingly accepted Iranian guidance. These Middle East experts were then subsequently hired, credentialed, supported, and funded by (Robert) Malley and the ICG where he was president from January 2018 until January 2021, when he joined the Biden administration.

Malley was also ICG’s program director for Middle East and North Africa before the Obama administration tapped him in February 2014 to run negotiations for the Iran nuclear deal. Vaez joined the ICG in 2012 and served as Malley’s top deputy.

So the reason that the three Obama administrations looked like they favored Iran, is because they DID favor Iran?

20 posted on 10/08/2023 8:01:02 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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