By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog
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Who is funding the pro-Hamas riots in major cities? The state sponsors of Hamas in Tehran.
After
failing to mention it in previous briefings, Director of National
Intelligence Avril Haines finally issued a press release admitting that
“Iranian government actors have sought to opportunistically take
advantage of ongoing protests regarding the war in Gaza” by “posing as
activists online, seeking to encourage protests, and even providing
financial support to protesters.”
Haines, a veteran of the Obama
and Biden administrations, then went out of her way to defend
participants in the pro-Hamas movement even though they are working with
America’s enemies.
“I know Americans who participate in protests
are, in good faith, expressing their views on the conflict in Gaza,”
she argued. “Americans who are being targeted by this Iranian campaign
may not be aware that they are interacting with or receiving support
from a foreign government.”
That problem could be easily
addressed if Haines revealed the names that the Iranian campaign
operates under and which pro-Hamas groups or individuals are benefiting
from the money.
Especially since doing business with the Iranian
government is illegal without special exemptions. If Americans are
taking money from the Iranian government, they’re committing a crime.
And if they don’t know the source of the money, shouldn’t the U.S.
government warn them that they’re unintentionally breaking the law? So
why is Haines still keeping quiet?
Iran’s support for the
pro-Hamas movement is no secret. The terrorist regime in Tehran has
declared its support for the terror riots and even sanctioned’ the Chief
of the University of Florida Police Department and other law
enforcement personnel for interfering with the terrorists.
“Dear
university students in the United States of America, you are standing on
the right side of history. You have now formed a branch of the
Resistance Front,” Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had declared, openly taking credit for the pro-Hamas movement.
The
term “Resistance Front” is used to refer to Iran’s international
network of terrorist groups including Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad
and others. (Iran doesn’t officially list Al Qaeda as part of this
network, which does include other Sunni Muslim Brotherhood groups like
Hamas, but the current leader of Al Qaeda is based out of Tehran.) By naming the Hamas protesters as part of the “Resistance Front”, Iran was including them alongside Hamas and Hezbollah, whose flags have been waved at the riots, as one of the terror fronts that it funds and controls.
During
a terrorist conference, IRGC Chief Commander Hossein Salami, a leader
of Iran’s international terrorist network, boasted that “the resistance
is so grand, beautiful, and captivating that its attractions have
penetrated even into the universities of the US.”
Iranian universities organized
solidarity protests praising the Hamas encampments complete with chants
of ‘Death to America!’ ‘Death to Israel!’ and ‘Death to the Jewish
oppressors!’
An Iranian university offered free tuition for students protesting in support of Islamic terrorism.
Kayhan, a major Iranian regime newspaper, wrote that
“every student from Harvard, MIT, Boston, Columbia, Emerson, Texas, and
so forth has become an Iranian student” and celebrated, “this is what
we call exporting the Islamic Revolution!”
Foad Izadi, a professor at Tehran University who is listed as affiliated with the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, boasted that the Hamas supporters on college campuses were “our people”.
“If
tensions between America and Iran rise tomorrow or the day after, these
are the peoples who will have to take to the streets to support Iran,”
he told an interviewer. “Personally, I think that the potential to
repeat in the U.S. what Iran did in Lebanon is much higher. Our
Hizbullah-style groups in America are much larger than what we have in
Lebanon.”
The Iranian regime has done everything possible to take
responsibility for the Hamas riots. After months of it, the Biden
administration has tentatively gotten around to admitting the obvious.
Why is the Biden administration covering up Iran’s role in the Hamas campus riots?
The
protesters and rioters are almost universally members of the
administration’s leftist political base. And the administration has gone
to great lengths to defend them. Like Haines, Biden and Kamala both
praised the Hamas rioters as being motivated by the best possible
intentions.
The Hamas rioters “are showing exactly what the human emotion should be, as a response to Gaza,” Kamala recently told
The Nation: an extremist magazine whose writers have championed the
riots and denied Hamas atrocities. Kamala sounded like Iran’s Khamenei.
And the Biden administration has played a major role in enriching the Iranian regime.
Iran
has benefited from tens of billions in sanctions relief. That money
allowed it to build up allied terror groups like Hamas in Israel,
Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen. The US Navy has been
battling the Houthis for months on the high seas because of those
billions.
The dozens of Americans killed in Israel by Hamas and
others who may die in a war with Hezbollah can be attributed to the
Biden administration’s extensive sanctions relief to Iran.
And it’s likely that the sanctions relief also freed up money used to interfere in our election.
In
her Senate testimony, Haines implied that Iran was interfering in the
coming elections. We already know that Iran interfered on behalf of the
Democrats in the 2020 election.
The IRGC had previously engaged
in a “cyber-enabled disinformation and threat campaign designed to
influence the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election” through a false flag
operation by Iranian operatives pretending to be conservatives sending
emails to “tens of thousands of registered voters” in Florida that
threatened them “with physical injury if they did not change their party
affiliation and vote for President Trump.”
The Iranian
operatives organizing and funding Hamas riots in America may be the same
ones trying to swing the 2024 presidential election to the Biden-Harris
ticket.
That’s why the Biden administration doesn’t want to talk about them.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.
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