“””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’.
Very well stated.