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Meet @AlanKhazei who is running for a seat in the U.S. Congress #MA04.
He is endorsed by #Iran’s first official DC-based lobbying organization @paaia.
America, and the State of Massachusetts, please take this warning seriously.
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Khazei:
“What matters is how do we get Trump out of the White House.”
Use young energy to “finally break the log-jam in Congress, break the back of Mitch McConnell.”
“That’s what I am talking about.”
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Khazei’s close relations with high-profile figures have helped him raise significant cash.
“Khazei, however, has been one of the most successful at raising cash so far, and ended March with more than $780,000 cash on hand...”
bostonglobe.com/2020/05/07/met…
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Khazei opposed Trump’s order to kill Qassem Soleimani, the world’s number one terrorist who led militias in killing, injuring & dislocating millions of innocent people across the Middle East.
Soleimani also killed at least 600 U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
washingtonexaminer.com/news/us-milita…
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Khazei was angry over the deportation of Shahab Dehghani.
Dehghani is the son of Kamal Dehghani Firouzabadi, a former Iranian MP with close ties to senior regime officials, including @JZarif, former parliament speaker Ali Larijani & Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.
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Details:
"An Iranian student who was denied entry to the U.S. on arrival & deported this week, amid objections from top Democrats & left-wing activists, has family ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps & Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah."
foxnews.com/politics/irani…
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A long & interesting list of Iran apologists/lobbyists, especially those with ties to Tehran’s DC-based lobby groups, were protesting Dehghani’s deportation.
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Now it gets even more interesting:
Khazei is endorsed by @NIACouncil/ @NIACActionPAC, another known Iran lobby group in the U.S.
NIAC has very close relations with PAAIA, Iran’s first official DC-based lobbying organization.
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Congress Seeks Investigation Into Pro-Iran Lobby Group Tied to Tehran Regime
NIAC long accused of serving as Iran's U.S. lobbying arm
freebeacon.com/national-secur…
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How Trita Parsi (@tparsi) and NIAC Used the White House to Advance Iran’s Agenda
“… organizing the grassroots and pressure US lawmakers to pose a more Iran friendly position.”
tabletmag.com/sections/news/…
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Obama & Rhodes invited a former Iranian ambassador @hmousavian & NIAC founder Parsi to the White House over 30 times to hammer out the 2015 nuclear deal.
The same deal that gave Iran access to $150 billion in credit & $1.8 billion in unmarked cash.
freebeacon.com/national-secur…
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For those interested, this thread sheds more light on Mousavian & Parsi.
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PAAIA is an official Iran lobby org in DC.
NIAC, however, denies any such lobbying for Tehran.
Take a look at #NIACLobbies4Mullahs to see how Iranians feel about NIAC.
And listen to this former regime insider explains how NIAC was launched by @JZarif.
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“Trita Parsi, executive VP of the Quincy Institute, an isolationist think tank funded by billionaires George Soros & Charles Koch, copied criticisms of Trump's response to Portland protests first spread by Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif...”
freebeacon.com/national-secur…
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NIAC founder Trita Parsi very clearly parrots Zarif’s talking points.
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More recently:
@rezaaslan, another member of NIAC, made inappropriate remarks about “we burn the entire f…ing thing down.”
Thread for those interested
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Iran’s lobbyists have had dangerous success in the past:
@saharnow, a former NIAC member, reached as far as the Oval Office during the Obama/Biden tenure & had major influence in helping craft the full throttle appeasement vis-à-vis Iran’s regime.
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For those interested in this topic:
@YasmineTaeb was a former NIAC member who sought a seat in the Virginia Senate.
This thread sheds light on her background.
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For those interested, this thread shows how NIAC members have already found their way into the U.S. Congress.
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Iran also has “reporters” establishing close ties with Team Biden to push its talking points into Biden’s foreign policy agenda.
This thread sheds light.
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Iran is spending a massive amount of money to place its figures in the U.S. legislature.
This makes it even more imperative to:
-be informed & inform others
-call on your representatives & senators to investigate into Iran’s lobby groups in the U.S.
freebeacon.com/national-secur…
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TY for reading & I welcome all constructive feedback.
And since I have a feeling there will be a backlash from pro-Iran regime voices on Twitter accusing me of being a “fake” account, I’ll leave this link from my blog that debunks those claims.
bit.ly/2Xs3xgo
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