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SCOOP: State Department gave $1.5 million of our tax dollars to @Memarsadeghi, who has been smearing pro diplomacy Americans for years, to continue her attacks under @IranDisinfo. And @SGhasseminejad, who works at @FDD and has been smearing Americans for years, works for her.
Maryam Memarsadeghi has been granted millions in tax dollars from State Department in the past decade to promote civic education and tolerance in Iran. While she has repeatedly smeared journalists, academics, activists, and civil society organizations here in the US for years.
Congressional staff confirmed to me that @StateDept has suspended the funds and is investigating how @IranDisinfo worked outside the scope of the project. This project was meant to counter Iranian government propaganda, but they used social media to smear anti-war Americans.
The most bizarre attacks from @IranDisinfo were against Iranian journalists working at VOA, RFE/RL, and Radio Farda. These are all media organizations directly funded by US government. Basically US government funds were used to attack US government organizations. #McCarthyism
My sources confirm that State Department suspended funding for @IranDisinfo to investigate. It is very unlikely that funds will go back to the same implementers after their track record has come to light.
Maryam Memarsadeghi’s main organization http://eciviced.org was awarded the $1.5 million grant from State Department for @IranDisinfo. Her organization has been funded by American taxpayers for many years, with this mission:pic.twitter.com/utcQqdL3y8
The @statedeptspox confirmed that funding for @IranDisinfo is suspended and under review because they went outside the scope of the contract, and it is possible that funds will not go back to this implementer. (Great questions by @APDiploWriter)
Watch today's @statedeptspox comments about @IranDisinfo from minute 16:00 here: http://c-span.org/video/?461585-1/secretary-state-pompeo-defends-deal-reached-mexico-migration-flow …
Mariam Memarsadeghi has said it best: "Iranian propaganda has an aim of disempowering the individual and empowering the state." @IranDisinfo is a project that has done excellent work to expose the regime and its arms in the West. @StateDept
Authoritarian states use government resources to smear their critics as “propaganda” and silence their own citizens. Anyone who does not understand why this is wrong, should not be trusted with American taxpayer money.
Anyone running a project against the Iranian regime’s influence campaigns and disinformation in the United States will be failing in their responsibilities if they do not expose regime’s propaganda when they see it. That is what the taxpayers’ money was intended and used for.
RIP Joseph McCarthy
@memarsadeghi is lionizing Marco Rubio videos and retweeting Mike Pompeo... tells you all you need to know
heres the scoop: the state dept has been shitty at messaging through social media for over a decade and they pay millions to the least qualified contractors to do a bad job and get caught astroturfing when lil nas x rode the stan wave to superstardom. maybe hire someone like that
Senate should investigate how Islamic regime lobby receives funds through various mechanisms such as this. Ploughshares received grants in 2015 and 2016 that were used to fund media and Iranian regime lobby in the US to support Iran nuclear deal.https://apnews.com/7044e805a95a4b7da5533b1b9ab75cd2 …
What a duo! An #IranMisinfo thug/war lover @memarsadeghi and a company from #FDD @SGhasseminejad .
Nobody is surprised. There are lots of former Iranians motivated by greed or hatred who are available for hire by a Zionist dominated US foreign policy apparatus. This woman is one of the many who are given a voice to smear Iran and Iranians.
Tell us about the Mulah's money and the money that they pay you
She’s up the shahs ass like every LA Iranian that likes to pretend that their family “knew the shah”. Even if that was true (which it never is), congrats! You knew a brutal dictator. Here’s your cookie.
You know it's amazing there used to be so many bots/twitter accounts commenting on every iranian journalists posts that talked about the reality of sanctions or how no one in Iran was waiting for the shah. All of a sudden they are all gone.
Both Memarsadeghi and Ghaseminejad are voice of many Iranian like me who want democracy and freedom in Iran. But other hand,some fake journalist and org like you & niac are echoing and spreading the Javad Zarif's lies, fake news and disinformation in the west. #NIACviolatesFARA
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