John,
Well before the "12-day war" that was Netanyahu's opening act of a military campaign to destroy Iran, Israel was manufacturing a campaign to prop up pro-war Iranian voices and silence anyone standing in their way.
A critical new piece [[link removed]] in The Boston Review exposes how the former crown prince of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, became the eager and willing face of a multi-million dollar propaganda machine to crush Iranians’ self-determination and plant the seeds for war.
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This piece is a must-read for anyone who cares about Iran and Iranians' long-held aspirations for freedom and independence – and how those aspirations have been quashed by authoritarians, outside powers, and war. In this moment of fragile ceasefire, we must understand and expose the forces seeking to tear Iran apart through war, and those who are being exploited or weaponized to sell it.
[link removed] [[link removed]]Another crucial report by Ha'aretz [[link removed]] today exposes a massive online bot-net that is amplifying messages from Israel's ex-Intelligence Minister supporting war on Iran and the future rule of Pahlavi. They reveal that a significant portion of this bot-net was established in the fall of 2022 – this is the same bot-net that smeared and amplified attacks on NIAC and any Iranian diaspora voices that could stand in the way of war.
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While Iranians were in the streets demanding Women, Life, Freedom in the fall of 2022, Israel was establishing a foreign influence network to fool Iranians and Americans, prop up pro-war voices in the Iranian diaspora, and lay the ground for a war to destroy Iran.
Despite smears and attacks from the pro-war propaganda machine, more war is not what Iranians or Iranian Americans want. Our recent groundbreaking poll [[link removed]] with YouGov shows a clear majority of Iranian Americans oppose war, support diplomacy, and value civil rights at home—priorities we’ve long embodied.
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We won’t back down. We must keep up the pressure to prevent the next war from starting, but we need your help to fight back. Our team works tirelessly to turn the tides of war in Congress and mobilize our thousands of volunteers across the country for peace. Please support our work today. [[link removed]]
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In Solidarity,
Jamal Abdi President, NIAC[[link removed]]
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