“Afrasiabi allegedly sought to influence the American public and American policymakers for the benefit of his employer, the Iranian government, by disguising propaganda as objective policy analysis and expertise.”
(Seth D. DuCharme, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York)
Two days ago the news broke that the US Justice Department had filed charges against a long time Iranian agent working for the Islamic Republic of Iran as a mouthpiece for the Ayotollah since the George W Bush administration and throughout the Obama administration. (Hat tip: Cathy)
He lived in the Boston area and worked with an unnamed Congressman as he built up his ‘credibility’ and became a published writer at The New York Times.
I think we should find out how much influence he had over the likes of Former Secretary of State John Kerry during the Obama give-away to Iran.
Feds arrest nuclear scholar for failing to register as Iranian foreign agent
For more than a decade on print and on TV, he looked the part of an academic expert on U.S.-Iranian relations — but Kaveh Afrasiabi was secretly on the Iranian government’s payroll, the feds said Tuesday.
See below what Afrasiabi says about his 2019 book***
Afrasiabi, 63, a longtime U.S. resident, was charged with conspiracy to act as an unregistered foreign agent for working on behalf of Iran for the past 14 years, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said.
A writer and scholar, Afrasiabi received a Ph.D. in political science from Boston University and wrote a thesis titled “State and Populism in Iran” under the guidance of famed historian Howard Zinn, according to the bio on his website. The feds say he lives in Watertown, Mass., just outside of Boston.
Afrasiabi’s expertise helped him land TV speaking gigs, and informed his op-ed articles in The New York Times and his books. He was also a visiting professor at Harvard University and University of California-Berkeley.
All the while, say the feds, he was supported by the Iranian government.
Daily News continues….
Wouldn’t you like to know how many Dems were getting advice from the alleged Iranian spy?
As recently as 2020, Afrasiabi provided advice to the Iranian government on how to handle the fallout from the U.S. killing of Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
He suggested the country stop providing information on its nuclear program until the UN condemned the killing, the feds said.
It would “strike fear in the heart of the enemy,” he wrote, according to prosecutors.”
Here is what theJustice Department press statementsays about that last bit, about Trump’s killing of Soleimani and how Afrasiabi was directing how the UN Security Council should act and how a gullible US media should view it.
…. in January 2020, Afrasiabi emailed Iran’s Foreign Minister and Permanent Representative to the United Nations with advice for “retaliation” for the U.S. military airstrike that killed Major General Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Quds Force, the external operations arm of the Iranian government’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, proposing that the Iranian government “end all inspections and end all information on Iran’s nuclear activities pending a [United Nations Security Council] condemnation of [the United States’] illegal crime.”Afrasiabi claimed that such a move would, among other things, “strike fear in the heart of [the] enemy.”
And, see what Daniel Greenfield said at Frontpage magazineabout the charges against Afrasiabi.
Who was the Congressman working with the alleged spy? Dem or Republican we should be told!
***Don’t skip this!
A summary atAmazonof Iranian agent Afrasiabi’s November 2019 book (emphasis is mine):
With the advent of the Trump Administration, relations between Iran and the United States have become increasingly conflictual to the point that a future war between the two countries is a realistic possibility. President Trump has unilaterally withdrawn the US from the historic Iran nuclear accord and has re-imposed the nuclear-related sanctions, which had been removed as a result of that accord. Reflecting a new determined US effort to curb Iran’s hegemonic behavior throughout the Middle East, Trump’s Iran policy has all the markings of a sharp discontinuity in the Iran containment strategy of the previous six US administrations. The regime change policy, spearheaded by a hawkish cabinet with a long history of antipathy toward the Iranian government, has become the most salient feature of US policy toward Iran under President Trump. This turn in US foreign policy has important consequences not just for Iran but also for Iran’s neighbors and prospects of long-term stability in the Persian Gulf and beyond. This book seeks to examine the fluid dynamic of US-Iran relations in the Trump era by providing a social scientific understanding of the pattern of hostility and antagonism between Washington and Tehran and the resulting spiraling conflict that may lead to a disastrous war in the region.
They hated President Trump!
Kind of leaves you wondering what role the Iranian government had in the Great Election Steal of 2020.
And, one last thing! So Iranian agents can teach at Harvard, but Trump aides are barred from teaching there, and a movement is afoot to strip Harvard degrees from anyone who was, or is, loyal to President Donald Trump.
She is the first appointment this group of Religious Leftists has ever opposed. She is that much of a threat to them!
Decades ago the cultural Marxists knew that in order to bring communism to America they had to break down the nuclear family and worm their way into the churches and other religious institutions. Having done that, they are now very much seeing their labor bear fruit as they are closer than they have ever been to overthrowing our government to help bring about the worldwide ‘Great Reset.‘
Donald Trump and Amy Coney Barrett stand in their way.
The twenty-five-year old ‘Interfaith Alliance’has for the first time, they say, come out in opposition to a judicial nomination to the high court (Amy Coney Barrett is that much of a threat to the Marxists!).
Here is what they said in apress releaselate last week under a huge banner that reads RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IS UNDER THREAT:
For First Time in its History, Interfaith Alliance Opposes Nominee to the Federal Bench
Concludes that Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation would irreparably endanger religious freedom in the U.S. for those of all faiths and none
WASHINGTON — Interfaith Alliance will oppose the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court given the danger her stated views pose to the religious freedoms of all Americans. Her faith played no part in this decision, but rather her long record of statements and decisions that run counter to the historic understanding of religious freedom in this country.
This marks the first time in the organization’s more than 25 year history it has opposed a judicial or executive nomination on the merits of the nominee.
Following Justice Ginsburg’s death, Interfaith Alliance urged the president and Senate Leader Mitch McConnell to honor the precedent they set in 2016 and allow the winner of November’s election to nominate her successor. The organization also released five essential questions related to religious freedom that we believe any incoming nominee must answer. Once these calls went unheeded, the organization voiced our initial concerns around Judge Coney Barrett’s nomination.
Rabbi Jack Moline
SaidRabbi Jack Moline, president of Interfaith Alliance: “Believing that honesty and thoroughness are essential in any confirmation process, in the days following her nomination, we examined Judge Coney Barrett’s public statements, activities, and record as a federal judge with an eye toward the future of religious freedom.
“Our thorough review of Judge Coney Barrett’s record reveals an interpretation of religious freedom that threatens our basic right to believe as we choose. Interfaith Alliance therefore takes the unprecedented step of opposing her nomination to the Supreme Court.
“This is not a decision we reach lightly, but it is one we make with resolve and determination.We do so not to call into question Judge Coney Barrett’s personal beliefs or experience, but out of profound concern for her commitment to protecting true religious freedom for all Americans. Her judicial philosophy, evidenced by her past work, endangers the decades of progress our nation has made toward the abiding promise that every American is equal under the law.”
You can read Interfaith Alliance’s full response to Judge Coney Barrett’s nomination here. If you are interested in speaking further with Rabbi Moline, please contact Manisha Sunil at msunil@westendstrategy.com and (202) 417-0171.
Those in orange are hot-linked in the original so please go to the site and have a look at who exactly they are. Note that the gang is all here: Roman Catholics, Muslims, Baptists, Wiccans! More!
Be on the lookout for local Interfaith Groups working in your towns and cities. They are politically active Leftists with a fake religious veneer.
Has this happened to you? Somehow the Democrats have acquired my e-mail address so that many times a day I am treated to junk like this below.
I wonder where I shopped or where I visited that resulted in my now being on theirlists.
In some ways it is okay because it has been kind of an eye-opener to see just what they are telling their fellow Lefties as they desperately look for more voters (and more MONEY!).
I will mark them as spam eventually, but in the meantime I’m getting a clearer view of how nasty theseDemocrat women are.
Getting desperate? I guess they have nothing other than name-calling—“anti-woman bigot Mike Pence.”
Fake polls….
LOL! I guess I will now have to vote NO, I don’t approve of Kamala Harris, and see what happens!
But, their hysterical, vitriolic piece is a treasure trove of information that many of you will find useful.
Republican Senate Candidate Lauren Witzke wants a MORATORIUM on immigration to America!
Perhaps the most valuable reason for you to read their screed against the remarkableLauren Witzke is so you know where you might find information on who the Hard Left/Marxists hate the most.
It looks like the news site VDAREis at the top of their list.
Someone asked me yesterday about why anyone would sign up for news alerts from the likes of CAIR (for example) or Media Matters, and of course it is because you must know about the enemy and what they are doing and saying.
So here is Media Matters going after a long-shot Senate candidate in Joe Biden’s Delaware linking her to their most feared boogeymen—white nationalists.
Since calling someone a “racist” is losing its power, the Left has settled on “white nationalist” as the next best epithet that could cause good/weak people (they hope) to run in horror.
GOP-backed Senate candidate Lauren Witzke frequently shares content from white nationalist site VDare
U.S. Senate candidate Lauren Witzke has frequently shared content from VDare, a leading white nationalist site that also pushes anti-Semitism. Witzke, a QAnon supporter who also has the backing of the Delaware Republican Party, has additionally twice thanked anti-Semitic commentator Faith Goldy for supporting her campaign.
VDare is a white nationalist site that heavily attacks immigrants. The Southern Poverty Law Center states that it “regularly publishes articles by prominent white nationalists, race scientists and anti-Semites.”
VDare publishesposts that carry such headlines as: “One Problem With These Hispanic Immigrants Is Their Disgusting Behavior,” “Indians Aren’t That Intelligent (On Average),” “Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also…Hispanic Immigrants Taking Over FBI’s Ten Most Wanted,” “America Does Not Need ANY Immigrants From Africa,” and “Roll Over, JIHAD—There’s Also HIJRA, Muslim Conquest By Immigration.”
Continue reading here and add VDAREto your regular reading list! Big tech has been going nuts to block VDARE from your view.
This is some news you surely already know—teenager Nicholas Sandmann awarded big bucks from legacy media outlets who defamed and vilified him without the facts in that incident in Washington, DCfollowing a prolife march in January 2019.
To the media losers, Sandmann, with his pleasant smile and Trump hat, represented the perfect punching bag for the release of their hatred toward America firsters. The last laugh is Sandmann’s (for now)!
(Don’t miss the New York Post op-ed urging more conservatives to follow the young Kentuckians lead.)
I’m posting this story not so much to give you the news of Sandmann’s victory that you likely already knew, but to post the warning writer, John Zmirak, pens at the end of his story on the stunning slapdown of the Washington Post (and others).
Nick Sandmann Wasn’t Supposed to Survive. He Was Meant to End Up Like Mike Adams.
Nick Sandmann just turned 18 years old. And he’s settling a $250 million lawsuit with major media outlets that libeled him. Let’s send him our congratulations and prayers.
I was prepping Robert Oscar Lopez’s powerful piece on Mike Adams for publication when I realized something chilling. Reading how the left hounded that talented writer to suicide (if indeed he wasn’t murdered) I heard in my head the media headline that never ran. Thanks be to God.
“Racist Ringleader, Nicholas Sandmann, Dead at 17.”
That’s what the media mob wanted. They as good as admitted it.
When powerful reporters call a young man’s face “the most punchable in America,” that’s what they mean. When columnists and activists propose “doxing” him, contacting every college he ever applies to, or job he tries to get, that’s what they mean.
When Sandmann’s own Catholic bishop threw him to the wolves, when his school suspended him, when “conservative” columnists at National Review and other venues denounced him as “bigoted,” they were writing him off for life. They were branding him on his face with the most destructive charge available in America. The charge that’s now burning cities and getting Trump supporters murdered.
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They’re Coming for Us
That’s where we stand in 2020, as leftists verbally tap dance on Mike Adams’ coffin. I wish Mr. Sandmann well, and advise him to take his money and move somewhere sane, like Poland. Maybe start a Catholic college there. Because the kind of leftists who dug up Adams’ columns from 20 years ago to goad him to his grave aren’t finished with Nick Sandmann. They can’t forgive his innocence, his victory, or his smile.
They’re coming for him. They’re coming for me. And then they’ll come for you and your kids.
Get yourself to the gun range. Make friends there. Organize local militias, to step in when the police (afraid for their pensions) meekly disband. We don’t need two Americans like the McCloskeys in St. Louis, but two million or ten million. That’s the only way this madnessends.
