Iran has been an enemy for years. They’ve even tried to kill Donald Trump.
And now Kamala’s secret ties to this Iranian terrorist threw 2024 up in the air.
Iranian operatives are quietly fueling hate and spreading propaganda across U.S. college campuses and beyond—reaching even some of the nation’s top elected officials, according to a disturbing new report by George Washington University researchers.
The report exposes how deeply Iranian influence has penetrated American society, with operatives finding allies and gaining legitimacy in the process.
One of the most startling revelations involves none other than Vice President Kamala Harris, seen in a photograph casually mingling with Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi, a cleric at the heart of Iran’s influence campaign.
Elahi, who once served as head of the Iranian Navy’s political-ideological office in the 1980s, has long-standing ties to the murderous Iranian regime. He’s an open supporter of Hezbollah and has heaped praise on Iran’s founding zealot, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Harris met Elahi at a Detroit vaccination event in July 2021, alongside Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and other state and national political leaders.
Elahi’s nonprofit organization boasted about the encounter, posting images of the smiling cleric with Harris and highlighting the vice president’s planned visit to Elahi’s Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn, Michigan—though the trip was canceled due to a flood.
“Imam Elahi joined the vaccination mobilization event addressed by Vice President Harris,” the organization gushed, noting that the imam personally congratulated Harris for her administration’s achievements in fighting COVID-19.
This seemingly innocuous meeting illustrates the dangerous extent of Iran’s influence in the U.S., according to the explosive report from GWU’s Program on Extremism.
The report points to the radical Alavi Foundation in Manhattan, once accused of being a secret front for the Iranian government.
Elahi’s organization has received nearly $500,000 from the Alavi Foundation since 2000, with the foundation funneling another $1.9 million to American universities like Columbia.
“Democrats hold a dangerously mistaken notion that Iran is part of the solution—not the main problem in the Middle East. This leads them to outreach here in the U.S. with Muslims tied to that tyrannical theocracy like Mohammad Ali Elahi,” said Jim Hanson, chief editor of the Middle East Forum, a DC-based think tank. “Obama, Biden, and Harris have all enabled and even funded their efforts.”
Elahi, who posts photos of himself with former Iranian presidents, including Rouhani and the infamous Ebrahim Raisi, is no stranger to the regime’s top leadership.
He has publicly expressed support for Hezbollah, the terror group responsible for killing 241 Americans in a 1983 attack, and continues to spew anti-Israel rhetoric.
In one recent diatribe, Elahi proclaimed, “The war that Netanyahu and his terrorist cult have started against Lebanon will never succeed. I hope to see Netanyahu and his criminal cabinet in jail soon.”
Elahi’s ties to Tehran run deep. In 1991, he was reportedly tasked with inspecting Hezbollah’s American branches and promoting Iran’s influence on Shi’ite communities here in the U.S., according to the U.S. Institute of Peace.
He is also part of the Ahl Al-Bayt World Assembly (ABWA), an Iranian-based organization founded by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that aims to expand the regime’s global influence.
Despite sanctions preventing ABWA from operating directly in the U.S., the group facilitates trips for American academics to Iran to meet regime leaders and receive indoctrination in the holy city of Qom.
The GWU report underscores how, despite his overt ties to Tehran, Elahi has managed to cozy up to top American Democrats—further illustrating the perilous reach of Iran’s influence network.
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