“The Biden-Harris Administration policy of appeasing Iran and abandoning Israel will only worsen if Kamala Harris and her Iranian apologist staff are elevated. I am proud to join Senator Cotton to demand accountability,” she said.
The aide, Ariane Tabatabai, helped found the Iran Experts Initiative, which coordinated with senior Iranian Foreign Ministry officials to influence negotiations on the Iran nuclear deal starting in 2014, and was also involved in a “covert campaign” to smear a prominent opposition group resisting the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
She still serves in the Biden administration at the Pentagon as a chief of staff to the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low intensity conflict.
“In a March 2020 piece, Mr. Gordon and Ms. Tabatabai claimed continued sanctions on Iran would create ‘catastrophe’ in the Middle East. In another, they wrote sanctions could lead to new Iranian efforts to ‘lash out with attacks on its neighbors, and on Americans and American interests in the Middle East,’” Stefanik and Cotton said.
“Each prediction was as wrong, as it was biased in favor of Tehran. Mr. Gordon was also closely associated with the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), another Iranian influence organization that allegedly collaborates with Tehran,” they added, pointing to the adviser’s speaking engagements at the group’s 2014 and 2016 leadership conferences.