Gabriel Noronha
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Former @StateDept advisor on Iran. @JINSADC Fellow. @PolarisNatSec ED. SASC/Inhofe/McCain/Ayotte alum. Occasional Denis Villeneuve evangelist.
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🧵THREAD: It has been over a year since Iranian state-owned airlines started ferrying suicide drones to Russia.
And yet in the next seven days, these same airlines will land at 12 airports in NATO countries - each flight in violation of U.S. terror and WMD sanctions. (1/7)
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This is incredible - Iranians are fighting back like I’ve never seen before.
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President Trump fomented an insurrectionist mob that attacked the Capitol today. He continues to take every opportunity to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power. These actions threaten our democracy and our Republic. Trump is entirely unfit to remain in office, and needs to go.
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An NYU student who tore down posters of Israeli hostages complains that she's been suspended from school, had her scholarship rescinded, and will be kicked out of campus dorms next semester.
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I don’t normally tweet Iranian propaganda videos, but there’s an exception to every rule…
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The divide between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people could not be greater.
Soccer fans chant “Take that Palestinian flag and shove it up your ***” in response to an attempt by regime supporters to rally for Hamas.
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Video: A crowd at the steps of the Sydney Opera House chants "gas the Jews" and "f*ck the Jews" on October 9.
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Ok let's talk about what "Iranian sleeper cells" in the US look like.
This July 2022 video shows 100s of children singing an ode to Qassem Soleimani & Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei with lyrics "I will be your soldier, I will be your martyr."
It's not Tehran, it's Houston.🧵
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Driver: Are you a Jew?
Biker: I am in fact.
Driver: I knew it! I knew you was a Jew. You people are the devil. You are the devil.
📍Washington, DC:
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The United Kingdom ended their nearly 20-year mission in Afghanistan today. They sacrificed 457 of their sons and daughters in that fight. Each one is pictured below.
With the utmost gratitude from 🇺🇸
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Last week, Iranian Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari announced Iran had built a breakthrough quantum processor that can detect surface vessels using quantum algorithms.
You too can get this "quantum processor" for the low price of $589 on Amazon!
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Interviewer: Since you built 500km of tunnels, why haven’t you built bomb shelters where civilians can hide?
Hamas official: it is the responsibility of the United Nations to protect them.
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All government officials swear to uphold and defend the constitution. That is where our loyalties must lie - not to any man or political party.
@JoeBiden
has won the election for President and we must all work together to rebuild our economy and defend our nation.
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I don’t say this very often, but damn, John Kirby is 100% spot on here. Thank you for having moral clarity.
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Three radical anti-Israeli activists were arrested for setting fire to an Israeli-owned defense company's factory in New Hampshire this morning.
One of the activists had previously worked to map out Jewish preschools and other Jewish institutions in Boston. (1/2)
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🧵I'm sorry Jen but you are simply unfamiliar with Iranian budgeting practices and how the Iranian regime and Hamas make decisions.
1. Iran normally has to allocate its limited foreign exchange reserves for food/medicine months in advance to facilitate trade flows. Not anymore.
Those who are saying that this $6 billion that was part of the American hostage release negotiated by the Biden administration likely fueled the Hamas invasion are missing some key facts….None of the money has been spent yet. It remains in a Qatari bank under US Treasury watch.
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Hamas published a video showing their members digging up water pipes and converting them to fire rockets at Israel.
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An Iranian woman Roya Heshmati was lashed 74 times for refusing to wear the hijab.
When she went to receive her punishment, she refused to wear a hijab and was threatened with 74 more lashes. She still refused.
Here is her full testimony:
“This morning, I contacted my lawyer…
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Iranians are desperately writing me - asking we not forget them when we can’t see videos like these ones.
In Iran’s November 2019 protests, the regime cut the internet nationwide then slaughtered 1,500 protesters in darkness.
It’s probably happening again.
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I visited this kibbutz, Kfar Aza, just last year. The commander who liberated it from Hamas control says they found the bodies of 40 babies.
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Wow - dozens of Iranian gestapo trying to disburse protesters get swarmed instead.
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The Washington Post is outraged that
@StopAntisemites
is exposing virulent antisemites, so now they're writing sympathetic profiles of said antisemites.
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Yesterday I asked why the
@StateDept
gave a visa to Parviz Parastui - one of Qassem Soleimani's close supporters and an apologist for Iranian terrorism.
Last night he assaulted an Iranian-American human rights activist in Los Angeles while attending a CodePink event.
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BREAKING: Wall Street Journal confirms that Iran plotted, organized, and approved the attack on Israel with Hamas.
The plots started in August, the same month when Biden’s $6 billion ransom payment was announced.
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The Iranian regime doesn’t want the world to see the Iranian people taking to the streets - or to see what the regime will do next.
⚠️ Confirmed: Real-time network data show a nation-scale loss of connectivity on MCI (First Mobile),
#Iran
's leading mobile operator, and Rightel; the incidents come amid widespread protests over the death of
#MahsaAmini
📵
📰 Background:
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The hacker group Black Reward that posted 50GB of Iranian nuclear agency emails has been suspended from Twitter.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who regularly orders the execution of protesters and imprisons Iranians for their social media posts, remains active at
@khamenei_ir
.
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1. NEW: My former career
@StateDept
, NSC, and EU colleagues are so concerned with the concessions being made by
@RobMalley
in Vienna that they’ve allowed me to publish some details of the coming deal in the hopes that Congress will act to stop the capitulation.
[Long thread]
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VIDEO: Mikhael Ulyanov, the Russian Ambassador for Iran negotiations says that the deal is "24, maybe 48 hours" away from completion.
The Chinese, Russian, and Iranian governments know what's in this deal. The U.S. Congress and the American people are being kept in the dark.
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A few early observations on Israel’s strike on Iran and its proxy targets:
1- Great to see Israel didn’t let itself be bullied by US/European demands at unilateral appeasement.
2- the Iranian regime couldn’t defend their airspace. Israel has freedom of operation inside Iran.
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A celebratory rally was held in Dearborn, Michigan this evening - they asked children to come on stage.
Since 1997, the Department of Justice has charged 55 residents of Michigan with support for Hezbollah.
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When U.S. officials told me what was inside the new Iran deal, I realized that Biden was not going back to the JCPOA.
His team negotiated an entirely different agreement. And as you can read for yourself here, it is much, much worse than the original.
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#BREAKING
: UN Sanctions on Iran’s ballistic missile and drone program have just now expired (7pm ET, 12am GMT).
Iran can now legally buy an ICBM from China or sell missiles/drones to Hamas, Hezbollah, and Russia.
Iran has violated UN sanctions almost continually since 2015. They are being rewarded by Biden and Europe with a lifting of UN sanctions that will advance their drone and missile program.
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Iran has just executed a 3rd athlete - champion boxer Ali Mutairi - tortured and killed 6 days after the regime hanged its 2nd wrestler. U.S.
@StateDept
and European governments must speak up and pressure the IOC to kick Iran out of the 2021 Tokyo Games.
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The Iranian Foreign Ministry is quite upset that Ilhan Omar is no longer on the House Foreign Affairs Committee...
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Among many other complaints, Iranian people despise that the regime sends billions of dollars to Hamas and Hezbollah to engage in terrorism while the regime refuses to fund health, education, and infrastructure for the Iranian people.
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An Iranian security thug pointed a shotgun at protesters - a brave Iranian man leapt and grabbed it out of his hands.
Seeing acts like this everyday, I cannot shake the feeling this regime’s days are coming to an end.
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Anyways I just walked by the George Washington encampment while trying to get chipotle and saw this sign with a swastika and SS lightning bolts that calls Jews “circumcising demons”
Today I visited my alma mater
@gwuniversity
to see for myself what these protests and the tent encampment was really all about. People are free to make their own judgments based on what they see in this video, but here are some of my impressions.
First of all, the protesters…
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According to Iranian officials, 50,000 of Iran’s 75,000 mosques have closed due to a lack of attendance. Iran’s Culture Minister says figures and statistics are “highly alarming”.
Why? Iranians are revolted by the clerical elites’ hypocrisy & oppression.
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Video: Hundreds of Iranian schoolgirls have been poisoned across multiple Iranian cities - likely to prevent them from attending school and protests.
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Hamas' leader Ismail Haniyeh broadcast this unhinged rant:
"The blood of the women, children, and elderly...we are the ones who need this blood so it awakens within us the revolutionary spirit...So it pushes us to move forward."
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BREAKING: Leaked Iranian government emails reveal the Iranian Foreign Ministry created an “Iran Experts Initiative” in 2014 which included Ali Vaez (Rob Malley’s former top aide) and Ariane Tabatabai (former Malley aide and now a senior Pentagon official).
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The "Islamic Education Center" of Houston hides under the guise of a religious institution.
To be clear, it's not about Islam - it's about advancing Iranian propaganda. That's why they host an annual commemoration of Ruhollah Khomeini - the founder of the Iranian regime.
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The
@StateDept
deleted this whole section from last year's human rights report on Iran. When asked by
@HibaNasr
why the report doesn't include the statistic that 1,500 Iranians were killed, State Department officials wouldn't answer. That's deeply troubling - here's why:
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Parviz Parastui is a top Iranian actor who sat next to Soleimani at film screenings, signed letters acclaiming his terrorist activities, and has repeatedly denounced the United States.
Congress needs to investigate
@StateDept
and
@DHSgov
's vetting process vigorously.
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Iranian girls hopscotching on Khomeini and Khamenei’s face 😇
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I personally prefer the Iranian breakthrough of the remote COVID detector (not to be confused with a symbol) the IRGC's top commander rolled out in 2020!
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Here's the video of the actual explosion - slowed down. No munition falls from the sky, the white vehicle appears to explodes internally.
It's likely a car bomb. That also explains why the motorist just happens to be filming the road at that time: to weaponize more Gazan deaths.
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Gestapo are hunting down Iranian protesters in their homes.
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2. Iran can now devote $6 billion of its unrestricted funds toward financial, operational, and logistical support for terror proxies including Hamas.
And it will do so through the Central Bank of Iran, which received a sanctions waiver last month as part of the hostage deal.
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UVA students call the horrific events of this weekend "an unprecedented feat for the 21st century" and "a step towards a free Palestine."
I never thought I'd see students from Charlottesville say such a thing - shame on them.
I am disgusted by reports that students at my alma mater, the University of Virginia, will be marching on Thursday in support of Hamas' barbaric attacks on Israel.
Was the KKK marching across The Lawn not enough?
@presjimryan
are you aware of this?
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In the past 30 months, Iran has bombed, attacked, and seized tankers owned, operated, or flagged by:
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
🇰🇷 South Korea
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
🇲🇭Marshall Islands
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🇧🇲 Bermuda
🇳🇴 Norway
🇵🇦 Panama
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇱🇷 Liberia
🇮🇱 Israel
🇯🇵 Japan
and...
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FLASHBACK: February 4, 2021: President Biden announces he is ending arms sales to Saudi Arabia for their war against the Houthis, says it will "end the war in Yemen".
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Despite hundreds of their comrades killed by the regime, crowds of Iranian protesters continue to take to the streets in SE Iran.
They are changing “death to the dictator!” [Ali Khamenei]
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3. This is a long and technical thread, but here’s what you should know: the deal being negotiated in Vienna is dangerous to our national security, it is illegal, it is illegitimate, and it in no way serves U.S. interests in either the short or long term.
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#BREAKING
: Israel reportedly killed Ziyad Al-Nakhalah, the Secretary General of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, in a strike on the Iranian Ambassador's residence in Damascus, Syria (next to the Iranian embassy).
Nakhalah just met with Supreme Leader Khamenei in Tehran last week.
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2. “What’s happening in Vienna is a total disaster” one warned. The entire negotiations have been filtered and “essentially run” by Russian diplomat Mikhail Ulyanov.
The concessions and other misguided policies have led three members of the U.S. negotiating team to leave.
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Iranian World Cup fans don’t care that this TV reporter is Israeli, in fact they seem to love it!
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Calla Walsh, featured in a 2021
@NYTimes
profile, also has a long rap-sheet of harassing Jews, promoting communists, defending terrorists, etc etc (details in link)
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Calla Walsh [Calla M. Walsh] has spread hatred of the police and America on Twitter, idolized a domestic terrorist and promoted a terrorist organization. Walsh has justified violence, promoted an anti-Semitic campaign and demonized Israel and Zionism.
As of June 2022, Walsh…
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The vast majority of Iranian Americans despise the regime. They they hate the regime, Hamas, and Hezbollah, and they proudly stand with Israel.
But there are pernicious and advanced pro-Iranian networks in the US that need to be disrupted and prosecuted.
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4. According to US Treasury sanctions across administrations, Hamas receives tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars directly from Iran through the IRGC.
The $6 billion payment freed up huge reserves to ensure that Iran could continue this support.
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They've been hosting these days at least since 2013, when their website noted there were parallel "celebrations" in Detroit/Dearborn, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, and Los Angeles.
At these celebrations, you have Khomeini quote readings like this one.
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VIDEO: Iranians are cheering on Israel’s strike that killed several senior IRGC generals yesterday.
Meanwhile
#IraniansStandWithIsrael
is trending. The Iranian people despise their government - and the IRGC too.
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NEW: The United States is preparing to lift sanctions on several of the Iranian regime’s most notorious human rights abusers implicated in the torture and execution of political dissidents, the murder of protesters, and the persecution of Iran’s LGBTQ community.
Details in🧵:
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Very strange/questionable for a top
@nytimes
journalist to amplify an Iranian state propaganda station’s fluff content, considering IRIB regularly airs forced confessions extracted by torture.
Iranian policemen also murdered at least 23 children in the protests last November.
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4. Here’s why: Led by Rob Malley, the U.S. has promised to lift sanctions on some of the regime’s worst terrorists and torturers, leading officials in the regime’s WMD infrastructure, and is currently trying to lift sanctions on the IRGC itself. Let’s dive in.
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The
@USEnvoyIran
Rob Malley is making the preposterous claim that some U.S. sanctions on Iran are illegal. When asked to produce *just one* example of an illegal sanction, here was the
@StateDept
's proof:
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Video of the event: hundreds of children in Texas singing lines such as “I make an oath…one day when you need me, I will be your martyr.”
The Islamic Education Center of Houston organized a group recitation - for children aged 4 to 14 - of a song celebrating Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini.
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1. An anonymous senior U.S. official (likely Brett McGurk) said it was too early to know whether Iran was involved or planning/supporting Hamas' attack against Israel.
This not only contradicts Hamas' spokesperson's on-record confirmation, it ignores 3 decades of evidence.🧵
A senior White House official told reporters that it is "too early" to know what involvement, if any, Iran had in the attacks in Israel.
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Over 4,000 Syrian Palestinians were slaughtered by Assad during the Syrian Civil War - including at least 614 tortured to death.
Does anyone remember mass street protests for their cause? Or is it not really about Palestinian lives…?
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Again, really want to emphasize: this is not about Islam, and I'm not attacking those of Muslim faith - this is about improper Iranian influence.
Their YouTube channel is flooded with videos from PressTV, Iran's English-language propaganda channel.
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Police in Shanghai beat and arrest accredited BBC journalist Edward Lawrence.
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6. We sanctioned some of the worst people you can possibly imagine under this authority, like Mohsen Rezaei, who was involved in the 1994 AMIA bombing that killed 85 people in Argentina.
He’ll be able to live free of sanctions next week if Malley proceeds.
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And this is just a glimpse at the future.
The
@StateDept
is trying to lift sanctions on the IRGC, which would let 100s of thousands of IRGC members get into the U.S. while they are trying to assassinate
@mikepompeo
,
@AmbJohnBolton
, Brian Hook, and others.
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While Iran attacks a U.S. consulate with a dozen ballistic missiles, the U.S. prepares to sign a deal that:
➡️lifts restrictions on Iran’s ballistic missiles next year
➡️lifts sanctions against the IRGC’s financial arms
➡️could de-list the IRGC as a foreign terror organization
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This is Mohsen Rezaie - the former Commander-in-Chief of the IRGC and Vice President of Iran for Economic Affairs.
He calls for taking a thousand Americans hostage and getting billions for them to solve "part of our economic problems".
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I honestly wasn't sure a senior DoD leader could say something this stupid.
So I looked up the video. Turns out, it's even worse.
She says Ukraine shouldn't hit Russian oil & gas sector because it's "one of the elements of being a European democracy".
🇺🇲🇺🇦🇷🇺 Just now in a HASC hearing, Assistant Secretary of Defense Wallander says that Russian oil & gas infrastructure is a civilian target. 🤡
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The reality is Iran knew it was going to get this $6 billion in September months ago - it added enormous stability to their currency markets and ensured they had fiscal space.
Iran trains, equips, and directs Hamas activities. The $6B was a green light to approve this operation.
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31 US Senators including the Ranking Members of Senate Intel, Foreign Relations, and Armed Services wrote to SecDef Austin about the Iranian influence scandal surrounding Dr. Ariane Tabatabai, DoD Chief of Staff for Special Operations.
BREAKING SCOOP: Senators Demand Pentagon Revoke Security Clearance for Offl Tied to Secret Iranian Gov't Group -- Pentagon is compromised by Iranian influence operation,
@SenatorWicker
and 30 senators warn
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Iranian protesters - and proudly unveiled women - throw stones at regime security vehicles in Tabriz, Iran.
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#BREAKING
: The DOJ has indicted an Iranian drug trafficker and a Canadian Hells Angels hitman working with Iranian intelligence to kill two Americans in Maryland.
The Hells Angels member was building a 4-man squad to carry out the killings for $350,000.
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Iranian security thug tries to taze protesters, it doesn’t end well for him.
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Rob Malley recently participated in a roundtable at J Street with pro-Iran lobbyists & advocates. I found the unlisted video...
Here's the lawyer behind Obama sending pallets of cash to Iran describing how Team Biden must avoid congressional review of their new deal with Iran.
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7.Also under this action, the U.S. will lift sanctions on IRGC Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan, who led IRGC forces in Lebanon and Syria when Hezbollah bombed the Marine compound in Beirut and killed 241 U.S. servicemembers in 1983.
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3. According to Iranian lawmakers, they planned to use the $6 billion to backfill internal accounting debts to the Central Bank of Iran, which is sanctioned by the U.S. for their support of Iranian terrorism and support for Hamas.
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Wolf Blitzer: Iran put a $300,000 price tag on your head. What goes through your mind hearing the details of the plot?
@AmbJohnBolton
: I was embarrassed at the low price, I would have thought it would have been higher. Maybe it was an exchange rate problem or something.
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5. First, Biden’s team is preparing to rescind the Supreme Leaders’ Office Executive Order (E.O. 13876) as soon as this coming Monday, and lift sanctions on nearly every one of the 112 people/entities sanctioned under it, even if they’re sanctioned under other legal authorities.
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"It's a mistake to only think about [Hezbollah and Hamas] in their terrorist violence dimension...it has a charity organization, a social branch...there's so much misinformation about them."
Ladies and gentlemen, the U.S. Special Envoy for Iran, Rob Malley.
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Statement from Northeastern University in Boston, which shut down their pro-Hamas encampment this morning after activists started saying “Kill the Jews”, which apparently crossed a line.
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.
@BretBaier
presses NSC's John Kirby on why they haven't refrozen the $6B ransom payment and why they let Iran export $30 billion in oil last year- up from $6.6B in 2020.
Kirby: "Supply and demand have to be balanced."
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The Center also hosts a Cub Scout Troop. As an Eagle Scout myself, let me just tell you, this ain't a normal presentation (video from July 2019).
My issue is not the kids: it's with the parents and whomever is funding and indoctrinating them.
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Two Iranian girls beautifully sing in Tehran’s Freedom Square unveiled.
They have committed two “crimes” under Iranian law: singing and showing their hair, each carrying a one-year prison sentence.
#IranRevolution
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What on earth are
@statedept
staffers doing?
For a Iran “human rights defenders” meeting with
@Secblinken
they brought in Sherry Hakimi, who describes meeting Javad Zarif as her “celebrity rockstar moment”.
Highly offensive and inappropriate.
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Bravo to the freedom fighters who painted
#CubaLibre
outside the Cuban Embassy in Washington DC.
@MayorBowser
- hope you let it stay up there until the dictatorship is gone!
#SOSCuba
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Biden is paying Iran a ransom payment of $1.2 BILLION per American hostage.
John Kerry paid Iran $340 million per hostage (in pallets of cash).
That's an inflation rate of 253%.
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