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by Majid Rafizadeh • August 26, 2023 at 5:00 am
* The Iranian regime is advancing its ideology and increasing its influence in Shia mosques throughout the United States, while the Biden administration is sitting idly by, presumably still seeking to return to a disastrous nuclear deal, lift sanctions against Iran, and fund the regime to launch more terrorist attacks, further repress its own citizens, and pave the way for it legally to obtain an unlimited supply of nuclear weapons.
* "In four separate cases, recent reports have illustrated the Iranian regime's influence on multiple Shi'a mosques and religious institutions in the United States. This is unacceptable." — Letter from nine US House Representatives to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, June 28, 2023.
* "This appears to be part of a network of regime-sponsored mosques acting as agents for a foreign adversary. The radical ideology being promoted by this regime preaches hatred not only towards Jews, Christians, and Westerners but also to Sunni Muslims and fellow Shi'a Muslims who do not accept the regime's ideology." — Letter from 9 US House Representatives to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, June 28, 2023.
* We are fortunate enough in the US to have freedom of religion enshrined in the First Amendment to the Constitution.
* All the same, Americans might like to be aware that there are clergy in the US whose goal it is to take the beliefs you now hold away from you and replace them with their own?

The Iranian regime is advancing its ideology and increasing its influence in Shia mosques throughout the United States, while the Biden administration is sitting idly by. Pictured: The Islamic Education Center in Potomac, Maryland, which, according to a recent letter from nine US House Representatives, "was revealed to be part of a network of mosques controlled by the Alavi Foundation... that has been in litigation for years because of allegations it operates on behalf of the Iranian regime." (Photo by STF/AFP via Getty Images)

The Iranian regime is advancing its ideology and increasing its influence in Shia mosques throughout the United States, while the Biden administration is sitting idly by, presumably still seeking to return to a disastrous nuclear deal, lift sanctions against Iran, and fund the regime to launch more terrorist attacks, further repress its own citizens, and pave the way for it legally to obtain an unlimited supply of nuclear weapons.

Nine US House Representatives recently sounded an alarm about the growing influence of Iran's regime in "American religious institutions". The Congressmen sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines warning about Iran's influence in at least four US mosques and centers in the United States:

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