


A new blockbuster report is out today exposing how Iranian influence agents infiltrated Joe Biden’s administration.
Three people who were part of Iran’s influence effort called Iran Experts Initiative (IEI) became part of Joe Biden’s administration.
Here’s more from Newsmax:
Iranian officials seeking to enhance Tehran’s image globally depended on influential overseas academics and researchers, including top aides to President Joe Biden’s special envoy Robert Malley, Semafor reported.
Malley, the Biden administration’s special envoy for Iran, was put on unpaid leave June 29 and his security clearance was under review.
Before his leave, Malley led administration efforts to revive the faltering Iran nuclear deal and to resolve issues related to detained Americans in Iran.
Semafor reported Tuesday that the Iran Experts Initiative (IEI), which began in 2014 under moderate then-President Hassan Rouhani, was an effort by Foreign Ministry officials to bolster Tehran’s image and positions on global security issues, particularly its nuclear program, by building ties influential overseas academics and researchers.
A large cache of Iranian government correspondence and emails, exposed by Semafor and Iran International, shows that at least three of the people on the Foreign Ministry’s list were, or became, top aides to Malley.
Ariane Tabatabai and Dina Esfandiary…
Saeed Khatibzadeh, a Berlin-based Iranian diplomat and future foreign ministry spokesman, wrote to Mostafa Zahrani, head of the Foreign Ministry’s in-house think tank, that he had gained support for the IEI from two young academics, Ariane Tabatabai and Dina Esfandiary, following a meeting with them in Prague.
“We three agreed to be the core group of the IEI,” Khatibzadeh wrote to Zahrani.
Tabatabai currently serves at the U.S. Defense Department as the chief of staff for the assistant secretary of defense for special operations, a position that requires a U.S. government security clearance. She previously served on Malley’s Iran nuclear negotiating team.
Esfandiary is a senior adviser on the Middle East and North Africa at the International Crisis Group, a think tank Malley headed from 2018-2021.
The other person, who was a former top aide to Malley, is Ali Vaez. He doesn’t get much of a mention in the Newsmax article but he is one of the three.
But this is what happens when you are sympathetic to a terrorist regime like Iran. I’m sure the Iranians saw Obama and Biden as easy targets for infiltration.