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High-Level Iranian Spy Ring Busted, trail leads from Tehran to D.C. passes directly through the offices of Robert Malley and the International Crisis Group |
2023-10-25 |
![]() 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. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#3 I wonder if they had Kalorama on speed-dial? Bet the WHCA knows. As for this absurd comment - "actively looking into whether all law and policy was properly followed in granting my chief of staff top secret special compartmented information." I am certain that the servicing SSO for that TS-SCI-Codeword(s) authorized billet has an "exception to policy notation" in the clearance approval documentation with the name and signature of the SECDEF-appointed approval authority. In simple language, standards clearly were NOT followed based on political over-rides! |
Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-10-25 12:40 |
#2 STATEMENT / MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA International Crisis Group report: A Ceasefire in Gaza -- Whoever bears responsibility for the blast killing hundreds in a hospital, the toll of the Gaza war is far too high. Western leaders should join calls for a pause to save lives, prevent fighting from spreading and give diplomacy a chance. |
Posted by: Jerens Black9355 2023-10-25 08:36 |
#1 Nothing, literally nothing, surprises me about this Regime. If it is abnormal & Immoral they embrace it. If it hates America, Whites and Jews they fund it. If it makes them pocket $$$$$, they champion it. |
Posted by: NN2N1 2023-10-25 07:40 |