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As I wrote recently, an army of Big Business Benedict Arnolds are rushing to sell their souls to the brutal Chinese communist dictatorship. They’re also selling their countries: China regularly uses its ties with Big Business, especially the gargantuan business of tertiary education, to steal billions of dollars of intellectual property, year on year. Not to mention national secrets. Chinese spies used ties to a defence contractor in Australia to steal plans for the F-35 stealth fighter jet – which have resurfaced as the virtually identical Shenyang J-31 Falcon Hawk. At the Defending Australia Summit in 2024, a former Chinese spy stated that there are more than 1200 intelligence agents currently operating in Australia.
Chillingly, his scheduled interpreter at the event quit moments before, out of fear of reprisals from Chinese Communist Party agents.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, the Big Business Quislings are also throwing the West wide open to spies from the fanatical Islamic death cult in Tehran.
Alleged Iranian spies with ties to regime bigwigs have been charged with infiltrating Silicon Valley.
Last month, a federal grand jury indicted three Iranian software engineers for allegedly stealing trade secrets from tech companies, including Google.
Two of the suspects are sisters, Samaneh Ghandali, 41, and Sorvoor Ghandali, 32. They were charged alongside Mohammadjavad Khosravi, 40, who is Samaneh’s husband, with allegedly using their employment at unidentified technology companies to “obtain access to confidential and sensitive information,” according to the Department of Justice.
It’s not as if the supposedly ‘smartest guys in the room’ could have had no clue that their new H1-B employees were tied to the regime.
The Ghandali sisters’ father is Iranian regime insider Shahabeddin Ghandali, a former chief executive of the Teachers Investment Fund Corporation back in Iran. He was arrested and charged over an embezzlement of $2.5 billion in 2016, and fraud involving Iran’s Bank Sarmayeh, according to reports. Although arrested, it is unclear if he was ever prosecuted in relation to the scheme, as others were.
In other words, his little girls secured daddy’s immunity by turning spy...
It’s not just the wokeists of Silicon Valley who are facilitating the betrayal of their country. The university sector in the US is just as venal and treacherous as Australia’s, which openly collaborates with, not just China, but Iran and even North Korea.
Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi, a prominent Iranian-American political science professor who has taught at Harvard and other elite universities, was charged with failing to register as a foreign agent for Iran under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) in 2021.
Prosecutors claimed that for more than 10 years he was secretly working for the government of Iran and the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations (IMUN) “to spread their propaganda” […]
In another case, Iranian-American Ahmadreza Mohammadi Doostdar pleaded guilty to acting as a foreign agent of Iran in 2019. Mohammadi-Doostdar, whose brother teaches Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago, conducted surveillance of Jewish organizations at that school, federal prosecutors claimed.
Naturally, the ‘newspaper’ that provided a bully pulpit for a Stalinist apologist is just as ready to help out murderous authoritarian regimes as ever.
Afrasiabi, a frequent contributor to the New York Times, had collected more than $250,000 in checks drawn on IMUN’s official bank account since 2007 and received health insurance through the IMUN employee health benefit plans since 2011, according to a federal complaint against him.
“Mr Afrasiabi never disclosed to a congressman, journalists or others who hold roles of influence in our country that he was being paid by the Iranian government to paint an untruthfully positive picture of the nation,” claimed the Department of Justice in a press release. The same document alleged Afrasiabi lobbied an unnamed congressman and gave the Iranian ambassador to the UN advice for “retaliation” for the US military airstrike that killed Major General Qasem Soleimani, the head of the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Soleimani was killed in a US strike in Baghdad on January 3, 2020.
Afrasiabi also allegedly proposed the Iranian government “end all inspections and end all information on Iran’s nuclear activities pending a [United Nations Security Council] condemnation of [the United States’] illegal crime,” of killing Soleimani, according to the complaint. Afrasiabi claimed the move would “strike fear in the heart of [the] enemy.”
The collaboration went all the way to the top.
President Biden issued a full pardon for Afrasiabi as part of a prisoner swap in 2023. He is still believed to be in the US.
Hanging out in Martha’s Vineyard, by any chance?
