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  1. What is amazing to me is how for a supposedly intelligent person Obama is amazingly stupid about Iran.

  2. We knew what the consequences of installing a regime that hates “Western” values would be. But once they got their hands on the till they paid off the vote stealers.

    May God help the United States and it’s people.

    Because the left in general, and the democrats in particular, are doing everything they possibly can to destroy us.

  3. A minor problem is that Biden has been forced to beg the Saudis to increase production of oil. When that didn’t work, he is now leaning on the domestic producers. I have thought all along that bringing Iran back and reinstating the Iran agreement was the purpose of the RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA hysteria that probably either lead to this war or impeded attempts to halt it. If you desire a consistent realistic foreign policy for the US, never vote for Democrats.

  4. “Do we have a temporary reprieve of sorts regarding the Biden administration’s intentions regarding Iran, due to Russian demands in light of its invasion of Ukraine?” neo

    Yes, as long as Russia stays firm on its demands, which will probably last as long as the West is imposing sanctions upon Russia.

    Yes, it seems likely that someone influential and persuasive in the administration realized that a postponement in Biden’s capitulation to Iran, until after the midterms is actually desirable for the democrats.

    Robert Shotzberger,

    Obama is NOT amazingly stupid about Iran. His actions vis a vis Iran are entirely intentional. So too with the Biden administration.

    Tuvea has the right of it, “the left in general, and the democrats in particular, are doing everything they possibly can to destroy us”.

  5. If the Federal Reserve, Congress, the White House, the flag ranks of the military, the public health apparat, the federal judiciary, and the security services were traitors who had sold out to China, what would they have done differently the last three years?

  6. joke bidet should just send in the cackling Kamala Harris – the top world class diplomat on earth of the last 500 years – and that other world class diplomat, Mr. Climate Change John Kerry, to negotiate with the Iranians.

    An agreement would be reached within a few seconds.

    All Harris and Kerry need do, to stop Iranian development of nuclear weapons, is agree that the USA will just give Iran whatever nukes they want, gratis. This way, Iran will have no need to develop their own nukes.

    Iran just need promise that they will refrain from launching on Israel for at least 5 days and beyond that time frame, promise not to launch on Israel more than 25 nuclear missiles within any two week period.

    Joke Bidet can have Peter Beinart announce the great achievement of such an agreement with Iran, in lieu of his current Minister of Propaganda, Jen Psaki.
    This can allow Jen to take a two day intensive journalism course at the Joseph Geobbels School of Advanced Propaganda in Havana, Cuba.

  7. “If the Federal Reserve, Congress, the White House, the flag ranks of the military, the public health apparat, the federal judiciary, and the security services were traitors who had sold out to China, what would they have done differently the last three years?” Art Deco

    That’s a trick question, right? 😉

  8. Early ’90’s, a bar in Milwaukee, nearing closing, they hit the end-of-night playlist: “Drink, Drink” from the Student Prince, “One for My Baby” by Sinatra, and “Those Were the Days” by Mary Hopkin. Now, I’ll have that in my head all night, and I’m okay with that.

  9. @ Art Deco – I thought some of them had sold out to Iran (Obama) and Ukraine (Biden).
    How many “donors” are they each collecting from?

  10. Glick’s conclusion is a not-so-veiled warning to Biden and Iran both.
    I don’t think the Abraham Accords partners were very happy with the Democrats’ immediate, and highly disrespectful, abrogation of their efforts.

    https://carolineglick.com/washingtons-betrayal-has-only-just-begun/

    The Saudis and the Emirates clearly already recognize the sucker’s game that Biden and his team are playing. Wednesday the Wall Street Journal reported that Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Muhammed bin Zayed of the UAE both refused to accept phone calls from Biden this week. Israel’s leaders should follow them in accepting reality and acting accordingly before the situation deteriorates still further.

  11. “Biden” policies WRT to the latest Iran “Deal” may have hit a temporary snag, but the plan to cut Israel down to size (i.e., force Israel to retreat to the May-1967 ceasefire lines) continues unabated:
    “Biden admin offering $1 mil for groups to delegitimize Israel”—
    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323783

  12. @ Barry > that’s pretty blatantly biased, especially considering what the Democrats (and some Republicans) are winking at in China, Iran, and other noted havens of Human Rights.

    The Biden administration is distributing close to $1 million to organizations to investigate claims of human rights abuses in Israel, Judea and Samaria and Gaza.

    …the State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) … is offering $987,654 to NGOs to “strengthen accountability and human rights in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza.”

    The grant notice posted on the State Department website calls for groups who would focus on “maintaining civil rights documentation to support justice and accountability.”

    This would include the “documentation of legal or security sector violations and housing, land, and property rights” while also “[understanding and accessing] the forums and processes available to take meaningful action in pursuing truth, accountability, and memorialization; and/or provide psychosocial support to survivors of atrocities.”

    Supporters of Israel in Congress were furious when they found out about the program, with accusations that the Biden administration is aiding the BDS movement.

    Everyone ought to be furious.
    First, it’s not the business of any NGO, especially an American one, to target any nation — that’s allegedly what the UN is for (hah); and it’s really egregious to single out one specific nation — if you actually are looking at real atrocities, rather than alleged (non-existent) ones.

    What a surprise it happens to be the only democracy in the Middle East, and the country that has the best human rights record in the neighborhood.

  13. The Disconnect should be astounding. (But for some reason, it’s not…. Some reason…)
    Anyway, compare and contrast:
    “Biden claims ‘inflation is largely the fault of Putin,’ not Democratic spending”—
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-says-inflation-putin-fault-not-democratic-spending

    “Biden is letting Putin run the Iran nuclear talks”—
    https://nypost.com/2022/03/12/biden-is-letting-putin-run-the-iran-nuclear-talks/

    “Kamala Harris says Dems’ [must] tell voters ‘they got what they ordered’ on Biden promises”—
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-address-dnc-saturday-after-europe-trip

    Uh-huh, sure…as the corrupt media spins ever more furiously:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3svW8PM_jc
    Sung to the words:
    “Got to say…it’s Trump’s FAULT…”

  14. That was fascinating.
    Thanks very much for the link.

    If Putin, with his invasion of Ukraine, has indeed thrown “a spanner in the works” of the Iran “Deal”, that would be a most magnificent irony (even if it’ll be most likely short-lived, but who knows?)…

  15. I believe short-lived won’t (because cannot) even start to live in the race to achieve the capitulation Malley and company aims to achieve, Barry. In other words I’d say the spanner is no spanner for Mallet (oops! Malley?) and company. Kinda like the kid with the spoon in “The Matrix”: there is no spoon.

  16. Led by President Bondo*, who is alert and aware (* Brandon, to continue the automotive corrosion metaphor).

  17. (We oughtn’t . . . yet we ought)

    The Americans are as putty in his hands, that winning winner: Scranton Joe Brandon.

  18. Is the person alert, aware, and oriented to his surroundings. Three essential questions a first aid provider asks a victim when rendering aid.

    Off to church.

  19. Read this post by Abdulrazaq especially – it shows how much motivation Iran had to meddle in the 2020 US election. Taking Trump out was essential to their nuclear & terrorist ambitions.
    It’s a long article, and I’ve only given his conclusion.

    https://nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/trump%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98maximum-pressure%E2%80%99-iran-policy-getting-results-152676
    May 10, 2020
    Author Tallha Abdulrazaq is an award-winning academic and columnist specialising in counterterrorism and military history at the University of Exeter’s Strategy and Security Institute in England.

    Far from liberal opprobrium being heaped on Trump’s Iran policy, it is now more important than ever for Washington to maintain pressure on the Islamic Republic and for European allies to step up to the plate and support its American ally. There can be no doubt that present U.S. policy to robustly tackle Iran’s ambitions that threaten American interests and those of its allies is having a tangible effect. Iranian generals are now too afraid to do what they were doing up until the beginning of this year and are outsourcing their command to terrorist proxies, further weakening Iranian control.

    Should Joe Biden win the election and reverse the Trump administration’s Iran policy in favour of those of his former running mate President Barack Obama, it will only embolden the Iranian regime, enriching and rewarding it for its bellicose activities and for its unparalleled support for terrorist organisations around the world. For the sake of global security and regional stability, this must not be allowed to happen and the United States needs to leverage its alliances to ensure Iran is compelled to behave responsibly.

    Well, he got that right.
    This is what the Iranians did to help make sure they got Biden back on the other side of the negotiation table. Speaking metaphorically, of course.

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/ballot-bombshells-20-episodes-exposing-fraud-illegalities-and
    John Solomon, March 10, 2022

    Illegal rule changes, ballot harvesting, Iranian voter hack are among the many now-confirmed serious irregularities, putting the lie to the “perfect election” narrative.
    After the 2020 election ended with Joe Biden declared the winner, the federal cybersecurity agency declared it was a perfectly secure vote. Months later, federal prosecutors admitted two Iranian nationals hacked into a state’s database and stole the identities of 100,000 voters in an effort to influence the election.

    Here are 20 of the most important revelations uncovered by Just the News over the last 15 months of reporting, complete with substantiating evidence and links”

    A Foreign Intrusion.
    Federal authorities have confirmed that two Iranian nationals successfully hacked into a state computer election system, stole 100,000 voter registrations and used the data to carry out a cyber-intimidation campaign that targeted GOP members of Congress, Trump campaign officials and Democratic voters in the November 2020 election in one of the largest foreign intrusions in U.S. election history. The defendants “were part of a coordinated conspiracy in which Iranian hackers sought to undermine faith and confidence in the U.S. presidential election,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams declared in an indictment.

    This is actually old news.
    By following a series of links and doing some searching, I filled out the Iranian Hacker story, which I will put in a second comment.

  20. This poster agrees with Abdulrazaq. He doesn’t give any links, as Solomon does in his posts, but he’s more effusive about the affects of the Iranian meddling, so I just thought I would throw it in.
    It was not a “big surprise” to everyone following the news, but the DOJ indictment was only released in November 18, 2021.

    https://tfiglobalnews.com/2022/01/28/there-was-no-russian-collusion-in-2016-but-definitely-iranian-collusion-in-the-2020-us-presidential-elections/

    Iranian hacker group interfered in 2020 polls
    ‘Proud Boys’ regularly make news for their illegal and violent activities. The group has been de-platformed by major tech platforms for its “racist” views.

    However, in a big surprise, the FBI has released a briefing, according to which a group of Iranian hackers supposedly posed as ‘Proud Boys’ members as a part of a cyber misinformation campaign intended to interfere in the 2020 polls.

    The Iranian hacker group, identified as Emennett Pasargad, was the one that interfered in the Presidential polls. Members of the group reportedly mask their activity by attacking through VPNs. Websites that use certain software programs like WordPress were particularly vulnerable to the Iranian hacker group as hackers can easily exploit such programs to carry out their attacks.

    “Multi-faceted campaign” by Iranian hackers

    As per the FBI, Emennett Pasargad has conducted “traditional cyber exploitation activity” since 2018. It has targeted news, shipping, oil, finance and telecom companies not just in the US, but also in Europe and other parts of the world. In 2020, Emennet also conducted cyber disinformation campaigns against Saudi Arabia, by masquerading as the “Yemen Cyber Army”.

    In 2020, the Iranian hackers carried out a “multi-faceted campaign to interfere in the US election”. And the Iranian interference was way too deep. The hackers obtained confidential voter information from at least one state election website and even threatened voters with intimidating e-mails. Also, it used tools like videos containing “disinformation” and unauthorised attempts at accessing voting-related websites of several states.

    Why Iran may have interfered in the 2020 polls

    Tehran had every reason to interfere and possibly dethrone Trump. After all, Iran hates Trump. The former US President is the one who got the top Iranian military official, Soleimani killed. Soleimani was one of the most powerful men in Iran, he was killed by the US under Trump’s watch and Tehran simply couldn’t do anything.

  21. Now, to begin at the beginning: this is a summary of the indictment and gives links to the documents.
    https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-iranian-nationals-charged-cyber-enabled-disinformation-and-threat-campaign-designed
    November 18, 2021
    https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1449226/download

    The Proud Boys hoax, mentioned in the preceding comment, is on page 3 of the indictment.
    Briefly, the hackers emailed Democrats whose data they had obtained and threatened them with physical harm if they voted for Trump. They had the voters’ addresses, of course, and said that the voters were to change registration to Republican as a signal they would comply.
    The implication (as I read the text; I can’t cut&paste from it) is that the senders would somehow know what the voters put on their ballots.
    Most Americans (clearly, now, no longer all) would understand (or at least assume) that was a false claim, so this threat may be one of the things that tipped the FBI it was a false-flag op.

    Solomon linked to the DOJ post, from which he got most of his information, and which identified the hackers with Emennett Pasargad, although Solomon omitted that detail.
    I’m excerpting it instead of the DOJ press release, because it also has other interesting information about the election, and some commentary.

    (FWIW JustTheNews renamed the document)
    https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2022-03/IranianHackerVoterDatabaseIndictment.pdf
    * * *
    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/new-federal-indictment-further-erodes-narrative-immaculate-2020-election
    John Solomon November 19, 2021

    The indictment stated that two Iranian hackers successfully hacked into a state computer election system, stole voter registration data and used it to carry out a cyber-intimidation campaign that targeted GOP members of Congress, Trump campaign officials and Democratic voters in the November 2020 election.

    [more news about election irregularities – to state it mildly]

    Now, the discomforting reality that hackers tied to a foreign power penetrated and stole voter data is certain to raise new questions about election integrity.
    Thursday’s federal indictment charged Seyyed Mohammad Hosein Musa Kazemi, 24, and Sajjad Kashian, 27, with obtaining confidential U.S. voter information from at least one state election website, sending threatening email messages to intimidate and interfere with voters, and disseminating a video containing disinformation about purported election infrastructure vulnerabilities.
    The victimized state was not identified, though prosecutors said at least 100,000 voters’ information was stolen in the scheme. Prosecutors did not allege direct Iranian government involvement but said at least one of the defendants had done work for Tehran’s government.
    U.S. officials said the case was an example of “malign foreign influence” in a U.S. election.

    The indictment alleged a plot that began in August 2020 that included:
    Attempts to compromise approximately 11 state voter websites, including state voter registration websites and state voter information websites. Those efforts resulted in the successful exploitation of a misconfigured computer system in one state in which data for more than 100,000 voters was stolen.
    The hackers posing as members of a “group of Proud Boys volunteers” and then sending Facebook messages and emails to Republican senators, Republican members of Congress, individuals associated with the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump, White House advisers, and members of the media.
    – Bogus messages claiming the Democratic Party was planning to exploit “serious security vulnerabilities” in state voter registration websites to “edit mail-in ballots or even register non-existent voters.”

    [NOTE: that turned out to be not so bogus, as it was later discovered that the Dems did some things very similar.]

    – The production of a false video carrying the Proud Boys logo, which purported to depict an individual hacking into state voter websites and using stolen voter information to create fraudulent absentee ballots.
    An online voter intimidation campaign involving the dissemination of a threatening message purporting to be from the Proud Boys, to tens of thousands of registered voters. The emails were sent to registered Democrats and threatened the recipients with physical injury if they did not change their party affiliation and vote for Trump.
    – An unsuccessful effort to hack into a news media company’s computers to further disseminate false claims concerning the election. The effort failed, prosecutors said.

  22. I found these posts on my own.
    I’m always intrigued by the way old news keeps getting repackaged, and what different outlets emphasize. The naming of Emennett Pasargad was clearly of more interest to Middle East observers & IT pros than it would have been to Solomon’s American readers.

    https://inside.com/campaigns/inside-security-2022-02-01-31178/sections/268705

    The FBI warned that hackers with ties to Iranian cyber group Emennett Pasargad are increasing efforts to target U.S. businesses. Last October, two Emennett Pasargad employees were charged with interfering in the 2020 presidential elections by impersonating far-right group the Proud Boys.
    More:
    The FBI says Emennett Pasargad impersonated the “Yemen Cyber Army” in 2018 to spread anti-Saudi Arabia rhetoric.
    The FBI says Emennett uses VPNs and web searches to find vulnerabilities against U.S. companies.
    The company has also targeted the travel, news, and telecommunications industries in Europe and the Middle East.
    It was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control last November.

    That article links back to (1) a Bloomberg post from November 2021, which was very short and uninformative; and (2) an analysis by a group that wants to sell VPN services, from January 2022.
    Computer nerds may find some of the omitted text of interest.

    https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/doj-charges-iranian-hackers-who-posed-as-pro-trump-proud-boys-1.1684075
    November 18, 2020

    https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-warns-over-iranian-cyber-group-tells-organizations-to-up-their-defenses/
    January 27, 2022

    The FBI has issued an alert detailing the tools, techniques and tactics of an Iranian group, giving US organizations tips to defend against its malicious cyber activities.
    Back in October 2021, a grand jury in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York indicted two Iranian nationals employed by Emennet Pasargad for computer intrusion, computer fraud, voter intimidation, interstate threats, and conspiracy offenses for their alleged participation in a campaign aimed at influencing and interfering with the 2020 US Presidential Election.
    The Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Emennet along with four members of the company’s management and the two indicted employees for attempting to influence the election. The Department of State’s Rewards for Justice Program also offered up to $10 million for information on the two indicted actors.
    But the FBI information indicates Emennet poses a broader cybersecurity threat outside of information operations.
    “Since 2018, Emennet has conducted traditional cyber exploitation activity targeting several sectors, including news, shipping, travel (hotels and airlines), oil and petrochemical, financial, and telecommunications, in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East,” it said.
    Emennet is known to use virtual private network (VPN) services TorGuard, CyberGhost, NordVPN, and Private Internet Access. The group also uses web search to identify leading US business brands and then scans their websites for vulnerabilities to exploit. In some but not all cases, the exploit attempts were targeted and the group would also try to identify hosting and shared hosting services.

    It said the group has attempted to leverage cyber intrusions conducted by other actors for their own benefit, for example searching for data hacked and leaked by other actors, and attempting to identify webshells that may have been placed or used by other cyber actors.

  23. I can’t find any indication that the named hackers have been arrested, and don’t expect to. However, a search for said apprehension turned up a lot of contemporary news posts about the indictments, and one about the bounty – anyone want to go for it?

    https://fox8.com/news/10-million-reward-offered-for-iranian-nationals-accused-of-interfering-with-2020-u-s-presidential-election/

    Authorities said sanctions were planned against Kazemi, Kashian, the company, and its leaders, who are not in custody.
    A reward of up to $10 million is available for information on Kazemi and Kashian’s activities.

    Iran didn’t like the mean tweets, er, indictments.
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/19/iran-condemns-us-sanctions-over-meddling-in-presidential-vote

    The US recently renewed the call for information, so I guess this group didn’t make it into Malley’s negotiation give-aways to Iran.
    https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2022/02/03/US-re-offers-10-mln-for-information-on-Iran-hackers-accused-of-election-interference

    This list by Noronha of terrorists that Biden intends to send off with his blessing doesn’t include the hackers, but they might still make the final cut – if there is one.
    https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/perfidy-in-vienna?s=r

  24. Sooo I got curious about whether this false-flag op got any play in 2020, and it did.
    I even had an article already bookmarked.

    https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/01/while-fearmongering-about-voter-intimidation-the-left-promises-to-revolt-if-trump-wins/

    It seems like threats of “creating serious disruption,” as one Resistance group expressed plans to do if Trump wins, might be a worrisome voter intimidation tactic. (If someone told me he would bring mass chaos to the streets if I voted for a particular candidate, I’d feel intimidated.) But the media and Twitter establishments are a lot more interested in a narrative where voter intimidation comes from the right.

    Much was made of emails circulating, allegedly from the extremist group “Proud Boys,” threatening to “come after” people unless they cast their votes for Trump.

    Here’s a threatening email my friend, a retired fed prosecutor, just received (she notified the FBI) telling her to vote for Trump. I find it ABSURD that Ratcliffe just said the voter intimidation campaign is designed to HURT Trump. By its very terms, it’s designed to HURT Biden! pic.twitter.com/lGN2apvEwN

    — Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) October 21, 2020

    The Proud Boys denied sending the emails, and government officials eventually deemed the emails to be from Iranian hackers. John Ratcliffe, U.S. director of national intelligence, suggested that the emails may have been actually a plot to “damage President Trump,” possibly by associating him with the Proud Boys or with voter intimidation tactics. Still, the “right-wing voter intimidation” narrative continued.

    The Washington Post engaged in a hand-wringing exercise over “jeering sign-wavers” and “caravans of honking trucks.” [NOTE – I’m waving my Canadian flag]
    ….
    And after the Trump campaign captured on camera what appeared to be voters dropping off multiple ballots, not just their own, Pennsylvania’s attorney general (and the New York Times) were more concerned that the videotaping might be intimidating voters than about the apparent voter fraud.

    Of course, this doesn’t mean that every incident of voter intimidation is imaginary. Incidents like one posted by Ajay Rochester, in which demonstrators took down her license plate number and told her “we got your plates, we got you,” are indefensible.

    However, for every legitimate concern of voter intimidation, there appear to be a host of examples of the media crying “intimidation!” at either a false or exaggerated story.

    After all, the “Proud Boys” email wasn’t from the Proud Boys. Trump never told his listeners to act violently at the polls, but to watch for instances of potential fraud. There is nothing inherently aggressive about legal and responsible concealed carry. Wearing a mask is hardly a threat to someone’s safety, and neither is videotaping to reveal sincere concerns about ballot integrity.

    One looming threat the media doesn’t want to talk about, though, is that of anti-Trump “Resistance” and what they plan to do if Biden doesn’t win on election night.

    Copious factual details of the Resistance, as opposed to baseless allegations about MAGA country.

  25. Phenomenal stuff, AF….

    I.e, your sleuthing…(Not the actual perps)…

    (Having said that, I would be wary of allowing this gruesome episode to divert attention, and blame, from Democrat Party EVIL to Iranian hackers—though maybe the point is that there was collusion there, too? (As in, “Peacocks of a feather”?) To be sure, the Mullahs may have overthrown the Pahlavis, but they’ve been acting far more reprehensively…as a great many Iranians themselves have discovered…)

    Anyway, thanks much….

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