The U. S. Department of Justice banned 27 other domain names that the Iranian Regime Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) illegally used to disinform the regime and advance mullah arguments.
The Justice Department, on a november four date, announced that “the 27 domain names were being used in violation of U. S. sanctions against the Iranian government and the IRGC. Four of the spaces claimed to be true news organizations, but were in fact controlled through the IRGC and specific audiences in the United States, to covertly influence US policy and public opinion. Violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). prior seizure of 92 domain names used through the IRGC for similar purposes ».
“Over the past month, we have announced seizures of weapons, fuel and covert infrastructure,” John C said. Demers, Deputy Attorney General for Homeland Security. ” Today’s 29 seizures are a vital step in opposition to Iran’s global disinformation campaign,” the U. S. Attorney said. Anderson. ” These paintings will continue. We cannot allow Iran’s commitment to fake news to exceed our commitment to the rule of law. “
As discussed through the U. S. attorney, the Iranian regime uses imitation to continue its disinformation campaign.
Among the closed domain names is an online page called the American Herald Tribune, which had claimed to be a “truly independent online medium,” founded in 2015, published in English and paid Americans to write articles.
On January 24, 2020, CNN revealed how this online page drives the Iranian regime’s false narratives.
A Facebook spokesman told CNN Business that corporate staff who viewed the facebook page of the online page said it was connected to Iranian state media. Facebook removed the page in 2018. FireEye, one of the leading cybersecurity companies, said it called it “moderate trust” that the online page originated in Iran and is a component of a much larger influence operation. big,” CNN’s report said.
“The articles published in the American Herald Tribune are largely in line with the prospects of iran’s ruling status quo. He publishes critical U. S. foreign policy articles and attacks President Donald Trump and Israel. The complaint often recalls the perspectives expressed on independent original Internet sites founded in the United States, especially those with an anti-status quo perspective. »
“Lee Foster, who leads the FireEye team that first discovered the network of sites, told CNN Business that “indicators, whether technical and behavioral,” the American Herald Tribune is connected to an Iran operation,” the report says.
This online page had published anti-WIPO articles, repeating the unfounded claims already rejected by the higher courts of the United States and Europe.
The regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MO) has used cover-ups to continue its demonization crusade against the opposition, tarnishing the symbol of the only viable mullah alternative.
The Iranian regime has tried to convey its arguments through the pressure groups. Many of the regime’s apologists paint under the banner of “Iranian militants,” “members of the Iranian community,” “journalists” or “Iranian experts. “
One example is the Iranian National Council of the United States (CANI), which brazenly defends Iran’s fascism and its foreign policy. On January 14, 2020, U. S. Senators Mike Braun, Ted Cruz, and Tom Cotton attended the U. S. Department. Justice to investigate CANI.
The senators, in a letter to U. S. Attorney General William Barr, called for an investigation into NIAC and his sister organization, NIAC Action, for violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
“FARA asks people who act as agents of foreign directors politically or quasi-politically to periodically and publicly disclose their appointments with the foreign director, as well as their activities, to choruses of certain types of speech; rather, it is helping to ensure transparency and accountability of revenues and disbursements in those activities. FARA does not require any American in our political system, “says the senators’ letter.
“CANI’s relationship with the Iranian regime and its role in driving the regime’s propaganda in the United States has been the subject of debate in Washington for years,” the senators added.
When the regime’s terrorist intellectual author, Qassem Soleimani, was killed in an attack by U. S. drones in Iraq, CANI and other regime apologists condemned the action. Qassem Soleimani is guilty of the murder of thousands of Iraqis and U. S. infantrymen in Iraq.
The National Council of Iranian Resistance (CNRI), in a report from January 2020, revealed the origins of CANI and its operation in the United States.
“CANI is the Iranian regime’s main means of communication in Washington. CANI and its founder Trita Parsi have direct contacts with the clerical regime in Iran and have acted as key negotiators for Tehran in Washington,” the CNRI report reads.
Images of Trita Parsi with a high-level Iranian delegation
“In direct coordination with the Iranian regime and while following an express political path, Parsi tried to justify the regime’s policies while urged unilateral concessions across the United States to the regime, as the only option capable of provoking a replacement. In Tehran’s behavior. An integral component of this technique has been the dissemination of lies and accusations contrary to the Iranian Resistance and in common the Organization of the People’s Muyahidines of Iran (WIPO / MEK). Parsi and the CANI have s tried to consolidate and substantiate Tehran’s propaganda opposed to the opposition arranged, presenting them as facts and launching a diabolical crusade against WIPO. According to CANI propaganda, the greatest challenge of Iranian society and the biggest impediment to replacing in Iran has been the presence of the MEK opposition, not the ruling regime in Iran,” the CNRI report added.
Ali Fallahian, a former intelligence minister for the Iranian regime, said on state television on July 9, 2017: “The Ministry of Intelligence wants politics to collect information, either internally or externally in the country. We don’t send an intelligence officer to Germany or the United States to say I’m from the Intelligence Department. A trade or journalistic policy is needed. “
The global was surprised to be informed that a so-called Iranian “diplomat” Assadollah Assadi and three other terrorists were arrested while seeking to bomb an opposition demonstration in central Europe in Paris in June 2018.
The annual “Free Iran” fundraiser organized through the CNRI brought together CNRI’s elected president, Maryam Radjavi, and lots of prominent European and American personalities.
The explanation for why the regime’s crusade to demonize WIPO was to justify Iran’s terrorism and internal oppression. Spreading the regime’s speech problems and not countering them will only allow the regime to continue its fatal frenzy inside and outside Iran.
Simply put, terrorism and regime oppression go hand in hand with its disinformation campaign.
It is time for the network to take decisive action against the regime and its agents by expelling them from their country.