NY Post: Harris Interacted With Iranian Operative

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Recently revealed photos show Vice President Kamala Harris mingling with an Iranian cleric with ties to the Iranian regime, the New York Post reported.

On Thursday, George Washington University’s Program on Extremism released a report, “Propaganda, Procurement and Lethal Operations: Iran’s Activities Inside America.” In the report is a photo of Harris talking with Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi, an Iranian cleric who has maintained decadeslong ties to Iran’s regime and who has praised the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, as well as the terrorist organization Hezbollah.

The photo was taken during a vaccination event in Detroit in 2021. “Imam Elahi joined the vaccination mobilization event addressed by Vice President Harris, [Michigan] Governor [Gretchen] Whitmer … and a group of state and national political leaders,” wrote Elahi’s nonprofit organization, Islamic House of Wisdom, at the time of the photo.

“Talking with VP Harris, the imam congratulated the administration for their great achievements in fighting COVID 19 and advancing the vaccination services,” the organization wrote. “Vice President Harris thanked Imam Elahi and IHW for their preparation to host her at the House of Wisdom.”

The outlet reviewed tax records connecting a Manhattan-based Iranian front group with funneling $500,000 to Elahi’s organization and almost $2 million to American universities, among them Columbia University.

“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,” Jim Hanson, chief editor of the Middle East Forum, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, told the Post. “[Former President Barack] Obama, [President Joe] Biden and Harris have all enabled and even funded their efforts.”

Elahi’s close ties with the Iranian regime have not prevented him from making connections with the top echelon of the Democratic Party. In addition to Harris, the photos also showed Elahi with former Secretary of State John Kerry and Whitmer.