Kamala Harris happily met Iranian regime operatives with close ties to groups that incite anti-Semitic hatred on American campuses.
Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi, an Iranian-born cleric who served as the head of the political and ideological department of Iran's navy in the 1980s, has deep ties to his homeland spanning decades. He praised the Islamic Republic's bloodthirsty founder Khomeini and Hezbollah, saying he would die for the cause.
Harris met with Elahi at a vaccination event at the TCF Center in Detroit. In July 2021The tour was scheduled to visit the controversial House of Islamic Wisdom in Dearborn, Michigan, before being canceled at the last minute due to flooding, according to the nonprofit's website.
“Imam Elahi participated in the vaccination mobilization event addressed by Vice President Harris and the Governor. [Gretchen] Whitmer. . . and a group of state and national political leaders,” the imam's nonprofit gushed over footage of Elahi smiling with Harris.
“The Imam met with Vice President Harris and praised the government's great achievements in combating COVID-19 and promoting vaccination services,” the group wrote. “Vice President Harris thanked Imam Elahi and the IHW for preparing to welcome her to the House of Wisdom.”
The meeting is Detailed in a shocking new report The extremism program at George Washington University points to Iran's broader efforts to spread hateful propaganda in the United States.
The GWU report also named the Manhattan-based militant Alavi Foundation, which was once accused by federal prosecutors as a “secret” front for the Iranian government.
The group has poured nearly $500,000 into Elahi's organization since 2000, and donated nearly $1.9 million more to American universities, including Columbia University, according to tax records reviewed by the Post.
“Democrats have a dangerous misconception that Iran is part of the solution, not the main problem in the Middle East. “It's about reaching out to Muslims who have ties to the United States,” Jim Hanson, editor-in-chief of the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Middle East Forum, told the Post. “Obama, Biden and Harris all enabled and funded that effort.”
Elahi, 68, maintains deep ties to the murderous regime.
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Elahi once called the Ayatollah, the architect who infamously kidnapped 53 American hostages over 444 days in 1979, an “exceptional religious authority” and was photographed with the zealot. There are some things.
Elahi has openly expressed support for Hezbollah, which killed 241 Americans in a 1983 terrorist attack and is locked in a war with Israel after the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.
“If my blood helps liberate Lebanon, I will give my blood to liberate Lebanon,” he once told an Arabic newspaper in Michigan.
“The war that Prime Minister Netanyahu and his terrorist organization have started against Lebanon will never succeed,” Elahi said. thunder rang out In September, Israel assassinated the leader of Hezbollah. “I hope Prime Minister Netanyahu and his criminal cabinet go to prison soon. And even if they escape justice in this world, they will not escape hell in the next.”
In 1991, Elahi was tasked with touring Hezbollah's U.S. branch and promoting Tehran's influence over the Shiite community, according to the U.S. Institute of Peace.
Elahi is also a member of the Ahl al-Bayt World Council, an Iran-based organization founded in 1994 by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. The group has spread its tentacles to about 90 countries and aims to expand the regime's influence through a network of academic institutions, civil rights organizations, charities and welfare projects around the world.
Elahi is the only identified American member of the ABWA General Assembly and was photographed at a meeting of Iran's highest leadership, GWU reported.
According to the GWU report, ABWA is unable to operate directly in the United States due to sanctions, but the organization organizes trips for American scholars to Iran, meets with regime leaders, and conducts tours of the Islamic holy city of Qom. They are receiving training at the headquarters.
Despite his close ties to Tehran, Elahi has managed to infiltrate the top ranks of the US Democratic Party.
In addition to Harris, he also has interactions with former Secretary of State John Kerry. whitmerthe photo shows.
The GWU report also names Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, Rep. Debbie Dingell, and the late Rep. John Conyers as having ties to Elahi.
Federal Election Commission records show Elahi regularly donates to Democrats through the fundraising platform ActBlue.
Also discussed in the GWU report Mr. Elahi's biggest benefactor, the Alavi Foundation, has continued to attract the attention of the federal government.
According to court documents, the Justice Department in 2008 found that Mr. Alavi “covertly acted as a front for the Iranian government and served as a gateway for millions of dollars to be funneled into Iran, in clear violation of U.S. sanctions.” insisted.
Since 2000, the nonprofit has donated at least $486,810 to Elahi's House of Islamic Wisdom, according to Alavi's tax records.
The group has also donated about $1.9 million over the years to American universities, including recent hotbeds of anti-Israel hate such as Harvard University, Columbia University and Hunter College.
In June, Elahi signed a letter demanding Wayne State University leaders meet with radical campus activists from Students for Justice in Palestine.
In July, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines acknowledged that “Iranian government officials were attempting to capitalize on the ongoing protests regarding the war in Gaza,” including by providing “financial support to protesters.” It also included the provision of
Lara Burns, lead researcher on the GWU report, said Haynes was right.
“We are tracking it [DNI] Burns said messages consistent with support for Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran have been reported at the protests, and even Iranian regime leaders have openly praised the movement.
Researchers say Mr. Alavi is at the center of a broader campaign to influence Americans.
“The New York-based Alavi Foundation is perhaps the most prolific contributor to the expansion of the Iranian regime’s influence in the United States,” says the GWU report, “Propaganda, Procurement, and Lethal Operations: Iranian Activities in the United States.” ” states.
“With a budget of millions of dollars, Iran directly owns or funds through subsidies, interest-free loans, and donations a wide range of mosques and institutions across the country that promote Iranian views.”
Farshid Jahidi, then president of Alavi, sentenced to 3 months in prison After pleading guilty in 2010 to charges of obstruction of justice and destroying documents related to Alavi's relationship with Iran's Meri Bank.
“The Iranian regime has worked closely with far-left, far-right and Islamist groups across Europe and North America for decades,” Sam Westrup, director of the Middle East Forum's Islamism Monitoring Project, said in August. told the Post. “After the October 7 attacks…the Iranian government is pouring money and logistics into anti-Israel and pro-terrorism rallies, encampments, and civil wars. We found evidence of this in Houston, There, the Iranian regime runs mosques, activist and student groups alongside Hamas-aligned groups, which appear to be heavily involved in anti-terrorism demonstrations.
After learning of the report, Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) said Iran's evil ideology and malign influence “has no place here.”
“We need an administration with the backbone to reject Iranian propaganda that undermines America and supports anti-Semitic views. America must stand up to terrorists at every turn, not be cowed by the Ayatollah.”
