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Title: Iran Paid Anti-Israel Protesters in America
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URL Source: https://www.theeditors.com/p/iran-paid-anti-israel-protesters
Published: Jul 9, 2024
Author: IRA STOLL
Post Date: 2024-07-09 16:45:42 by The_Rock
Keywords: None
Views: 1313
Comments: 28

The director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, says the U.S. intelligence community has “observed actors tied to Iran’s government posing as activists online, seeking to encourage protests, and even providing financial support to protesters.”

Haines made the disclosure in a July 9, 2024 press release. She said it was for the purpose of “informing the public of foreign efforts to influence our democratic processes.”

“In recent weeks, Iranian government actors have sought to opportunistically take advantage of ongoing protests regarding the war in Gaza,” Haines said. “Americans who are being targeted by this Iranian campaign may not be aware that they are interacting with or receiving support from a foreign government.”

The U.S. intelligence community typically functions separately from law enforcement, but in the past, some federal prosecutors have brought cases about attempted Iranian influence on American public opinion. President Biden pardoned one such figure in 2023 as part of a deal to obtain the release of American hostages held by Iran.

Haines, a Biden appointee who was deputy national security adviser during the Obama administration, took care not to portray all anti- Israel protesters as Iranian dupes. “I want to be clear that I know Americans who participate in protests are, in good faith, expressing their views on the conflict in Gaza – this intelligence does not indicate otherwise. Moreover, the freedom to express diverse views, when done peacefully, is essential to our democracy,” she wrote, “but it is also important to warn of foreign actors who seek to exploit our debate for their own purposes.”

Haines said she’d be offering more updates on foreign influence efforts as the 2024 campaign season progresses.

Absent from the statement was any explanation about what the U.S. government is doing to try to stop the Iranian meddling. Has it tried to shut down the bank accounts or social media accounts that the Iranians are using? Has it conveyed a diplomatic message through the Embassy of Switzerland or through other channels to Iran to cut it out?

A foreign policy official who served in the Reagan, George W. Bush, and Trump administrations, Elliott Abrams, has a post up on his Council on Foreign Relations blog calling out the ineptitude of the Biden administration in Middle East diplomacy, writing, “As I have watched U.S. diplomacy since October 7, the phrase that has kept on coming back to me is Casey Stengel’s after his 1962 Mets racked up a modern record of 120 losses: ‘Can’t anybody here play this game?’”

“Isn’t it obvious that as between Iran and the world’s greatest superpower, Iran and not the United States should be afraid of escalation?” Abrams writes. “The record is clear that the Iranian leadership shies away from confrontation with the United States, so why are our diplomats expressing the greater fear of escalation?”

Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election spawned endless investigations and news articles and accusations. It’d be strange if the disclosure of Iranian activity in the U.S. in the midst of the 2024 campaign fails to arouse similar levels of concern.

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#6. To: The_Rock (#0) (Edited)

Iran

Iran has been a hotbed of intrigue since the ouster of the lawfully elected Prime Minister in 1953 and the installation of Shah Reza Pahlavi. He was a CIA shill.

The Savak was the Shah's secret police, and they terrorized the population and kept everyone in line.

That didn't end until the student uprising in 1979 and the seizure of the U.S. Embassy for 444 days until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated. ;)

BTP Holdings  posted on  2024-07-09   19:21:41 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: BTP Holdings (#6)

The Shah was better than the alternative. He kept the fanatics in check for the better good.

The Shah > everyone that followed him.

The Shah didn't kill women for not wearing a bag over their head.

The_Rock  posted on  2024-07-09   20:17:46 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: The_Rock (#7)

From SAVAK - Wikipedia

A turning point in SAVAK's reputation for ruthless brutality was reportedly an attack on a gendarmerie post in the Caspian village of Siahkal by a small band of armed Marxists in February 1971, although it is also reported to have tortured to death a Shia cleric, Ayatollah Muhammad Reza Sa'idi, in 1970.[15][16] According to Iranian political historian Ervand Abrahamian, after this attack SAVAK interrogators were sent abroad for "scientific training to prevent unwanted deaths from 'brute force.' Brute force was supplemented with the bastinado; sleep deprivation; extensive solitary confinement; glaring searchlights; standing in one place for hours on end; nail extractions; snakes (favored for use with women); electrical shocks with cattle prods, often into the rectum; cigarette burns; sitting on hot grills; acid dripped into nostrils; near-drownings; mock executions; and an electric chair with a large metal mask to muffle screams while amplifying them for the victim. This latter contraption was dubbed the Apollo—an allusion to the American spacecraft of the same name. Prisoners were also humiliated by being raped, urinated on, and forced to stand naked.[17] Despite the new 'scientific' methods, the torture of choice remained the traditional bastinado used to beat soles of the feet. The "primary goal" of those using the bastinados "was to locate arms caches, safe houses and accomplices ..."[18]

You love that sort of stuff don't you Stone.

FormerLurker  posted on  2024-07-09   20:49:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: FormerLurker (#9)

Ayatollahs killed more than shah The Ayatollahs, led by Ruhollah Khomeini, were responsible for the execution of thousands of political prisoners during their rule in Iran. This is in contrast to the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was known for his authoritarian rule but did not engage in mass executions.

The_Rock  posted on  2024-07-09   21:00:16 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: The_Rock (#10)

Problem is, evil people control governments across the world, not just in Iran, and not just in 3rd world countries..

FormerLurker  posted on  2024-07-09   21:03:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#12. To: FormerLurker (#11)

Problem is, evil people control governments across the world, not just in Iran, and not just in 3rd world countries.

Yep.

Is it also evil to imply that I like it as you claimed? Because that wasn't a true statement.

I only said the Shah was better than those who followed him. He kept worse people in check.

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