1/ Here is Mohammad Ali Shabani, editor of Amwaj Media (@amwajmedia). He's from Sweden, but now seems to be in London.
According to the regime's own media (Mehr News), he began work at NIAC & then travelled down a natural pipeline to work for the regime's Press TV. #IranLobby
According to the regime's own media (Mehr News), he began work at NIAC & then travelled down a natural pipeline to work for the regime's Press TV. #IranLobby
2/ According to Mehr News, Shabani served as go-between for Zarif, setting up meetings for the FM with Gary Sick (Columbia), @alivaez (Crisis Group & close Rob Malley [Biden's Iran envoy] associate, @rparsi (brother of NIAC's Trita). He also aided the IRI's nuke negotiation team.
3/ According to Mehr News, the reason Zarif kept Shabani around was that he had ready accesss to large int'l media. @CNN , @nytimes , etc. (In NYT w/ former ambo to Germany -- on whose watch ppl were murdered in Berlin -- Mousavian)
4/ Here are some of his associates: the aforementioned Rouzbeh Parsi and Dina Esfandiary (@DEsfandiary) of @CrisisGroup
5/ A couple of questions:
(i) Did @nytimes, @CNN, @ForeignAffairs, and other media that gave him a platform ever disclose his ties to the regime?
(ii) will they continue to give him a platform?
(iii) Is Western intelligence watching him and his associates now?
(i) Did @nytimes, @CNN, @ForeignAffairs, and other media that gave him a platform ever disclose his ties to the regime?
(ii) will they continue to give him a platform?
(iii) Is Western intelligence watching him and his associates now?
6/ Here is the article in Mehr News for those that are able to read it. mehrnews.com/news/5175909/%…
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