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24 Dec, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Trita Parsi is upheld by progressives as a leading foreign policy voice and Middle East expert. He is included in the list of 100 foreign policy "experts" progressives are demanding Biden admin hire. And he's been baselessly claiming Trump will start a war with Iran for years.
2018:
Another 2018:
Early 2020:
More from Suleimani:
Trita is a dopey political huckster with a repertoire of one scam -- accusing anyone who isn't a shill for the Iranian regime of being a warmonger. And progressives love him. He's one of their stars.

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Beirut explosion is in area known to be used by Hezbollah for its long-range precision-guided missile project, which Israel publicly calls a red line. I have no specific knowledge, but would be surprised if explosives that detonated were not associated w/ that project. 1/
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I draw your attention to a little-noticed but very important statement made by Bernie adviser @joshorton to the DNC platform committee: jewishinsider.com/2020/07/dnc-ad…
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The leaders of the effort -- @AOC, the "Squad," Bernie Sanders, and others -- released a letter last week, and before it was made public she circulated it to anti-Semitic and BDS hate groups. Image
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