Posted on 11/13/2023 10:04:44 AM PST by DFG
An Iranian-born Pentagon aide, who was revealed earlier this year to be part of a years-long, Tehran-backed influence operation, also sought to undermine the leading resistance group to the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a new report delivered to President Biden.
Ariane Tabatabai has retained her security clearance and position as chief of staff to the Pentagon’s assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict — despite a bombshell Semafor report in September detailing her ties to senior Iranian Foreign Ministry officials.
But Tabatabai and founding members of the influence operation, known as the Iran Experts Initiative, were also engaged in a “covert campaign” to smear the nation’s leading opposition group, known as the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), according to a recent report endorsed by former vice presidential national security adviser Lincoln Bloomfield and written by a University of Baltimore professor.
“By seeking to neutralize favorable impressions of the organization among Washington’s foreign policy elite, Tehran sought to take down an entity capable of aiding Western attempts to curtail the Iranian regime’s nuclear weapons program, malign regional agenda, human rights abuses, and fundamentalist inclinations,” writes Ivan Sascha Sheehan, an associate dean of UB’s College of Public Affairs.
“By brazenly targeting the highly effective dissident organization, the operatives hoped to leave US officials with the false impression that there is no viable alternative to the ayatollahs — and certainly not one with a pro- democracy record that remains committed to toppling clerical rule.”
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So the US government is SO bloated and inept, while stated policy is to oppose Iran, there are actually people within the government running programs and operations to help Iran
Have I got that right?
Muslims directly or by deceit are required by their religion to attack their enemy, the infidels, by any and every means possible. Muslims should not be part of the military or any part of Homeland Defense. They are nothing more than a Trojan horse. A gift for Mohammad to the US with a belly full of soldiers waiting in the belly for an opportunity.
And with all the Muslims imported into the US by Obama and Biden the horse has a huge belly full.
Of course, you’re right. D.C. is the biggest of all the sleeper cells and our government knows it.
correction:
“...A gift for Mohammad to the US...”
s/b “..A gift FROM Mohammad to the US..”
Iranian nationals in the Pentagon. Brilliant!!!! How many Americans do you think are in their War department?
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