What could possibly go wrong?
In the landmark book How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie wrote that the best way to be promoted in any given job is to be an enemy of the United States. Or at least that’s the 2024 edition.
Back in September, I did a deep dive on Ariane Tabatabai, an Iranian immigrant who emails appeared to show appeared to have been coordinating with Iranian government officials.
In 2014, a year before Tabatabai began working as a NATO consultant, she joined an initiative by the Iranian Foreign Ministry to mobilize “Iranians who have established affiliations with the leading international think-tanks and academic institutions, mainly in Europe and the US.”
Before Tabatabai testified about the Iran Deal in Congress, she allegedly checked in with the head of an Iranian Foreign Ministry think tank. “I am scheduled to go to the Congress to give a talk about the nuclear program. I will bother you in the coming days,” she wrote.
In 2015, while Tabatabai was consulting for NATO, serving as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Kennedy’s Atom/International Security Program and teaching at Georgetown University, the Iranian government was bragging about her propaganda. Emails containing her articles were circulated from the Iranian Foreign Ministry operation all the way to Foreign Minister Javad Zarif.
Ariane Tabatabai personally forwarded her propaganda articles, including one claiming that Iran really needs nuclear energy and doesn’t intend to use it as a weapon.
In one leaked message, Tabatabai emailed her handler her article, co-written again with Esfandiary, titled, “Meeting Iran’s nuclear fuel supply needs”. “Our goal was to show what is said in the West – that Iran does not need more than 1500 centrifuges – is wrong, and that Iran should not be expected to reduce the number of its centrifuges,” she allegedly told her handler.
Her handler then forwarded the email to Iran’s Foreign Minister Zarif.
There were warnings about Tabatabai in 2021 when she was brought on board at the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control, and the Biden administration fumed.
Biden’s State Department Spokesman Ned Price claimed that she “was thoroughly vetted and investigated before being granted the position. Any suggestion of security-related concerns about Dr. Tabatabai are baseless and illegitimate.” He fumed that, “we will not sit idly by as our employees—dedicated public servants—face personal smears and slander.”
Then the Biden-Harris administration promoted Tabatabai to the Chief of Staff to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict.
After current concerns were raised about her possible role in leaking classified information about Israel’s attack plans on Iran, the Biden-Harris admin decided to grant her another promotion.
Ariane Tabatabai, who was named in the media as the source of the Oct. 18 leak but whom defense officials said was not a suspect in the investigation, is now the deputy assistant secretary of defense for force education and training within the Office of the Secretary of Defense under U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Politico reported.
What could possibly go wrong?
Promotions are supposed to be rewards for hard work and loyalty. Under Biden-Harris, they’re rewards for something else entirely.
Barb says
This is a 10X double dose of stupid.
gravenimage says
Grimly, I think this may be worse than stupid. Stupid is often fixable…
Troybeam says
Will be gone after election if all goes well.
somehistory says
And next we will learn that she is the one put in charge of the investigation to find the perp who leaked Israel’s plans to iran.
The Weasel: “Who me? I would never eat a chicken.”
gravenimage says
Biden-Harris Regime Promotes Iranian Agent to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
What could possibly go wrong?
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What indeed?
tgusa says
What else would we expect from the anti-American political party?
ConcernedReader says
If i recall well she already gave relevant information that the US knew to Iran.
Isn’t this something that would be called TREASON?
MD Anthony says
It’s inescapable This means “woke” Joe Biden America’s is “Chief executive of Treason” and Kamela is the Associate Chief executive of Treason.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
So how much damage can she do for the next 3 months? Or even longer, if Trump doesn’t win next week
Smooth Lee says
Horror will no longer be just a movie genre.
St Croix says
Why does she look the same in every photo? The same “Uh, what are you insinuating” somewhat startled, somewhat guilty, look? Hmmm. I wonder.
Skeptiker says
Da wird einem ja Angst und Bange, wie verantwortungslos und amerikaschädlich diese Administration unterwegs ist. Es wird höchste Zeit, dass diese Politik abgewählt wird.
James Lincoln says
Treason!
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
A DEI hire by any other name… What’s with Georgetown University? They seem to tolerate these kinds of shady people. A closer look into who funds the university is in order. Can someone at JW do an expose on the movie, Conclave? The main uproar of the movie seems to be focused on genitalia while the issue of Islam as an evil, intolerant ideology gets glossed over. I thoroughly enjoyed the acting and cinematography, but then the Woke agenda was shoehorned in during the last half hour of the movie. It attempted to depict Muslim refugees as mere victims of war. However, the movie never exposes Islam as the culprit of said wars or delves deeply into the dangers that this ‘religion’ poses to the culture of Italy and the rest of Europe. It also fails to focus on the irony of European societies allowing mosques to plant themselves in their countries while Islam has unapologetically spent the past 1400 years ruthlessly uprooting churches and synagogues in their own countries.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
BOYCOTT ALL MUSLIM COUNTRIES.
THEY ARE CESSPOOLS OF HATRED.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
BOYCOTT ALL MUSLIM COUNTRIES.
THEY’RE CESSPOOLS OF HATRED.
Transmaster says
I see what Brain Dead Biden, and Kamala, “Scrotum Pole” Harris are doing. They know when Trump gets in see will be shown the door. But with this position she will get 10’s of 1000’s more in a severance package. Trump has learned that going after these people is not worth the time. Now with what Sky News Australia is calling the Biden calling Americans floating garabase political seppuku. Now the “Make Garbage Great Again” ( MGGA) hat are appearing like morning mushrooms.
Trump answering questions from the cab of Peterbilt M548 garbage truck, priceless. I can just image what Peterbilt did when they got a phone call from the Trump campaign people. I can see the boss man calling down to the production line, People Trump wants a garbage truck.
Meanwhile Vivek Ramaswamy actually put on the work cloths and did a pickup route in a Garbage truck riding it to a political rally in North Carolina. There his comment about “taking out the trash” caused an explosion. His comment about the United States thanks to Biden is “the trash can of the world”. That statement caused an earthquake.
OLD GUY says
NO first or second generation migrant should be allowed positions in our government as an elected official to national position or have axes to military planing or require a security clearance. There I said it loud and clear.
Nienie says
“Verrat” German for, treason.
MD Anthony says
Biden’s State Department Spokesman Ned Price is defending Dr. Tabatini as having been vetted?
In light of what has been surfacing on Tabatabai since 2021 is Ned Price defining Passed Vtting” as meaning “Vetting” implies treasonous activity is OK?
I am left wondering if Ned Price was ever vetted.
Transmaster says
It used to be that anyone from a enemy country had extra scrutiny, and was monitored if they were given any type of security clearance. Not many were able to get one. Started with Clinton they started to relax the requirements. Now a Top Secret clearance is nothing like the one I held in the early 1970’s.
Troybeam says
Islam states a Muslim can only work in a foreign nation’s government as a means to destroy from within. Follow the dots.