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Trita Parsi
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Shocked to see how some have reacted to revelation that the traffic on their Twitter is largely driven by bots of the MEK terror org.

Instead of taking a step back and assessing why their tweets are so popular with these terrorists, they've chosen to attack the messenger :(
Most peace-loving, pro-democracy people would be horrified to find out at their tweets are being promoted by a terrorist organization.

But these guys are instead teaming up with the terrorist army of bots to attack the independent researcher who revealed this whole thing.
Makes you wonder why they're so comfortable with being operationally on the same side as the MEK terror org.

Difficult to take their slogans in favor of democracy in Iran seriously when they're striking de facto alliances with Saudi-funded terrorists...
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1. Willful blindness is needed to bemoan America's lessened footprint in the MidEast and claim it'll "destabilize" the region. In reality, the US's policy of primacy has encouraged US "allies" to be even more reckless and destabilizing.
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1. Astonished - but not surprised - by DC pundits outrage and horror over Trump's Syria withdrawal.

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