The suspected Biden Regime appointee, Ariane Tabatabai, an Iranian Muslim who serves as the Bureau Chief to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s aide for Special Operations was reportedly authorized to access highly classified information, and has not yet lost her security clearance despite being named as part of an Iranian influence campaign in leaked emails.
Townhall Republican lawmakers who have been warning about an Iranian influence campaign, specifically targeted at Democrats on Capitol Hill and Democratic presidential administrations, aren’t surprised about the latest top secret intelligence leak out of the Pentagon. The leak, which was exposed over the weekend, shows the a Pentagon official with a top secret security clearance gave Iran U.S. intelligence about Israel’s attack plans inside the country.
NY Post Ariane Tabatabai appeared to be a willing recruit in the covert influence operation run by Tehran’s Foreign Ministry, according to a trove of leaked files revealed last month by Semafor. She was previously a key aide to the suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley, whose secret ties to Tehran sparked congressional uproar.
Since early 2022, Tabatabai has been chief of staff to the Pentagon’s assistant secretory of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, Christopher P. Maier.
Malley was quietly placed on unpaid leave in June for his alleged mishandling of “protected material.”
But the Pentagon will let Tabatabai, 38, keep her $153,434-a-year job, along with her top secret security clearance, the Washington Free Beacon reported Wednesday. Republicans reacted with fury to news that Tabatabai will keep her job — and her access to the Pentagon’s most sensitive secrets — and called her an Iranian “spy.”
“Biden’s DoD is REFUSING to revoke the security clearance of an Iranian spy working at the Pentagon,” Ernst wrote on X. “More of POTUS’s appeasement strategy that has emboldened [Iran] & its proxies, like Hamas, & threatened our nat’l security.”
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said he may subpoena Tabatabai as part of his committee’s probe into Malley.
It’s no surprise Biden-Harris officials are committing TREASON by leaking U.S. Intelligence to Iran.
I flagged over a year ago that there is a senior official within the DOD who was part of an Iranian influence campaign. pic.twitter.com/CnDbsWLy54
— Rep. Brian Mast (@RepBrianMast) October 22, 2024
Tabatabai, 38, who was brought up in Tehran as the daughter of one of the country’s leading political thinkers, has openly argued that Iran is “too powerful to contain” — and has urged the United States to align with the Islamic republic and break its ties with Israel and the Gulf states, for America’s own good.
Her background and writings cast doubt on the wisdom of the Pentagon’s defense of the Iranian-born Tabatabai, whose Pentagon perch gives her access to America’s critical military intelligence.
Tabatabai, a US citizen born in Tehran, recalled Iran as “a country where one learns about hating ‘Zionists’ before being able to spell the word” in a 2014 Tumblr post, although she allegedly claimed to not “want to have anything to do with any of that.”
After graduating from SUNY Stony Brook in 2008, she returned to Iran, where her father had been inching back into the regime’s good graces. He became an adviser to President Muhammad Khatami and was apparently close to President Hassan Rouhani, who presented him with an award in 2019.
In 2014, less than a year into Rouhani’s first term, Tabatabai was one of three Western-based academics quietly invited by the Iranian Foreign Ministry to help form a secret influence group, the Iran Experts Initiative, the leaked documents said.
Within weeks of the IEI’s formation, Tabatabai apparently delivered — sending Zahrani articles she wrote in the Boston Globe and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in which she claimed that Iran needed nuclear capabilities not for weapons but for the “production of radioisotopes for medical purposes” and for “desalination, an energy-intensive process.”
Her goal, she explained to Zahrani, “was to show … that Iran should not be expected to reduce the number of its centrifuges” in the ongoing nuclear negotiations.
She scored face time with top Iranian officials, including then-Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, to glean quotes for a January 2015 paper she published in the journal International Affairs, a coup for a PhD candidate.
Within weeks of the IEI’s formation, Tabatabai apparently delivered — sending Zahrani articles she wrote in the Boston Globe and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in which she claimed that Iran needed nuclear capabilities not for weapons but for the “production of radioisotopes for medical purposes” and for “desalination, an energy-intensive process.” Her goal, she explained to Zahrani, “was to show … that Iran should not be expected to reduce the number of its centrifuges” in the ongoing nuclear negotiations.
Meanwhile, documents show, she used her Harvard email address to seek Zahrani’s approval of her attendance at international conferences — and even to request his help as she crafted testimony to deliver to a US congressional hearing on the nuclear deal.
In a single week in April 2015, as the Iran deal neared completion, she published four articles in influential publications like Foreign Policy and sat for multiple interviews, much to the delight of her Tehran contacts,the emails show.
“With or without a deal, Iran is a force to be reckoned with in the Middle East,” she wrote in the National Interest in an analysis titled “Mission Impossible: Iran Is Too Powerful to Contain.” “The balance of power is really what Iran has been seeking,” she insisted in November 2018, soon after former President Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA and imposed “maximum pressure” sanctions on Tehran.
In fact, she argued, Iran’s support of “non-state actors, terrorist groups, militias, insurgents” was all America’s fault. “Iran’s relationships with these players” — including Hamas and Hezbollah — “are largely shaped on Iran’s need to overcome isolation,” Tabatabai said at the Middle East Institute.
Jail my ass she needs to see a millitary judge and then to see the ten gun salute through a cloth bandage.
Whatever they do, “they” should wait until after November 5th. Otherwise, Biden would be obligated to pardon her before he exits office, assuming he still shows up there once in a while.
How dare you criticize her for doing what is her legal and moral obligation as a Muslim!
It is the obligation under Islam for every faithful Muslim to aid every fellow Muslim in any fight or battle against any infidel. That is Allah’s Shari’a Law and it does not recognize any infidel border or any infidel law.
If your government didn’t support that then why would you have let us into your country in the first place?
PRECISELY WHY you and all your fellow-Moslems so RICHLY DESERVE to lose any & ALL Western citizenships and be DEPORTED back to where you came from!!!!!
Ány Westerner who converts to Islam needs the same identical penalty and be dumped into Somalia, NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER TO RETURN under ANY circumstances!!!!! [Whoever tries to return to the West should be promptly killed as an outlaw ON SIGHT!!!!]
All too many Western governments were undermined by your allies pro tempore the MARXISTS – they’ve done all these things AGAINST THE WILL of their peoples!!!! As such, they qualify as TRAITORS and deserve to be summarily treated and EXECUTED!!!!
Thanks to those stooges like Pierre Elliott Trudeau plus his son Justin Trudeau (and also Brian Mulroney, Paul Martin Jr. + Jean Chrétien) in Canada; Ted Kennedy {although not a president, he was instrumental in overturning laws that would otherwise prohibit the likes of you from EVER coming to the USA!!!!} plus George HW Bush, George W Bush, William (“Bill”) Clinton and – above all – Barack Hussein Obama in the USA; François Mitterand, Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy (Niklas Sarközy) and now Emmanuel Macron in France; Angela Merkel and now Ursula van der Leyen in Germany plus Tony Blair and his successors in the UK: we now will (I most strongly fear…) have to overthrow our TRAITOROUS “governments” (even at the expense of Civil Wars, most unfortunately!!!) and then forcibly expel you INTERLOPERS – together with all your sympathisers and aiders + abettors the Marxists and other Humanists!!!! Thanks to your ultra-arrogant and “superior” behaviour, we now know you for who and what you really are: INVADERS, MASS-MURDERERS, CULTURE-MURDERERS, THIEVES, RAPISTS and everything else EVIL!!!!!
LONG LIVE the animals you hate (dogs, pigs and apes) – and us SMART, INTELLIGENT and CLEAN “infidels” – who’ve done GREAT DEEDS and other things beyond all counting (whereas you muzscum have virtually NOTHING to your credit!!!!). Also:
Confound your “allah” (real name Shaytan – our SATAN), your FALSE-PROPHET and genocide Mohammed and ALL your fellow-Moslems plus yourself straight to Hell and thence (after the Last Judgement) the Lake of FIRE!!!!!
I simply can’t say the following enough times: thanks to your absolute TOTALITARIANISM and extreme BIGOTRY, DEATH to ALL ISLAM and ALL MARXISM!!!!! Now and forever and unto ages of ages, Amen, amein and amjíñ!!!!!
Mo Mu’s comment is so ridiculous that I suspect he is just being facetious.
He is. I’m not even sure he is a Muslim.
His comment is no more ridiculous than the koran and hadiths, but is it an accurate portrayal of their content?
Where can i sighn this here. The above is right then it is her duty as a mudslime to give the secret to them, its our own fault that we let things like this in seats of office where they can do things like this. You see no matter how you look at it we are the problem then without us they would never have been voted for, im not saying we here but most of the people out there.
Islam is pure sadistic evil. I’m sure it all excites you sexually. F – ing pervert.
douche bag, raghead
Add another name to the list. Mossad is going to have a busy season, rectifying these betrayals.
They’ll have to, because the Biden Regime won’t do anything to her. Now if Trump becomes president, that will change.
Oh, this is going to get real good. If true the Democrats can’t surger coat this or try to spin it some way. This person needs serious prison time or death.
Treason should draw a death sentence. Hang the filthy bitch now. Seriously, this is the essence of the Biden Harris administration’s continuing unrelenting betrayal of America and Israel on behalf of the vicious evil belief system known as Islam.
One mild objection: a bitch is a female DOG!!! Why should we denigrate Mankind’s BEST FRIEND, the dog (especially given how Moslems would exterminate them plus pigs and apes if ever they could!!!!)???
Otherwise, I second your suggestion: this spiritual-PROSTITUTE and TRAITRESS Ariane Tabatabai deserves exactly what her fellow-Moslems in her home country would do to her: a slow-hanging in PUBLIC (with the execution being televised everywhere)!!!! [In fact, impalement would be even better as she betrayed the country that gave her so very much (education, a cushy job, elevated social status, &c.) in such a SCANDALOUS and INIMICAL MANNER…]
Only after u hang her for treason!!!!