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Princelings of Persia

JL;DR SUMMARY The article explores allegations surrounding certain Iranian nationals receiving favorable immigration treatment to the United States during the Obama administration, amidst the Iran nuclear deal negotiations. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Iran Nuclear DealIranImmigrationIranian DiasporaObama AdministrationSecurityIranian RegimeObamaIceIranian Operatives

Places mentioned

Tehran, Iran
"I used to dismiss what I thought was an urban myth that, to help sell Tehran on the nuke deal, President Barack Obama granted thousands of Iranian spies a backdoor path to residence and ultimately citizenship in the United States."
Los Angeles, California, United States
"But this year, this supposed myth was given new credibility with the arrest in Los Angeles of Shamim Mafi, an Iranian arms trafficker who came to California in 2013 and was given permanent residency under the Obama administration three years later."
Woodland Hills, California, United States
"That would be the same time frame when Mafi, the arms trafficker in Woodland Hills, got her green card."
Tujunga, California, United States
"Afshar had celebrated attacks on U.S. soldiers and military facilities, praised Irans supreme leader, called America the Great Satan, and voiced support for the IRGC, a designated terror organization, according to the New York Post, citing the State Department. She and her daughter, Sarinasadat Hosseiny, were detained by ICE, leaving behind a black Teslain which the Post glimpsed Herms cushions, a Miss Dior bag, and a Sephora bagin front of their home on Plainview Avenue in Tujunga, on the opposite side of the San Fernando Valley from Agoura Hills."
Washington DC, United States
"But ultimately, the effort should swing back east. The Hashemi and Larijani family members now in ICE custody may have been unsavory and corrupt (have a look at the Tahmasebi video clip from Agoura Hillshow did a teacher afford that?) who made no secret of supporting the Tehran regime, and Hamideh Soleimani-Afshar clearly committed gross fashion and cosmetic surgery abuse (a common offense in LA), but there is worseand thats in Washington, D.C."
Germany
"He was serving as Irans ambassador to Germany at the time of the Mykonos caf massacre of Iranian dissidents in 1992which the trial judge, Frithjof Kubsch, found had been ordered directly by Supreme Leader Khamenei."
Agoura Hills, California, United States
"Afshar had celebrated attacks on U.S. soldiers and military facilities, praised Irans supreme leader, called America the Great Satan, and voiced support for the IRGC, a designated terror organization, according to the New York Post, citing the State Department. She and her daughter, Sarinasadat Hosseiny, were detained by ICE, leaving behind a black Teslain which the Post glimpsed Herms cushions, a Miss Dior bag, and a Sephora bagin front of their home on Plainview Avenue in Tujunga, on the opposite side of the San Fernando Valley from Agoura Hills."
Virginia, United States
"Then on April 13, ICE detained Yousof Azizi, a Ph.D. candidate at Virginia Tech, the son of the late Ali Khameneis confidante Fereydoun Azizi, and the brother of Touhid Azizi, who led a government-run campaign to identify anti-regime protesters."
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
"Mousavian studied at Sacramento City College and got his bachelors degree in engineering from Sacramento State in 1981. Another regime apparatchik is the cleric Hojjatolislam Mohammad Jafar Amir Mahallati. He got a masters degree at the University of Kansas and a Ph.D. from McGill University in Canada (he boasts about his doctorate in Islamology, which was improbably granted for a single year of graduate study)."
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
"Mousavian studied at Sacramento City College and got his bachelors degree in engineering from Sacramento State in 1981. Another regime apparatchik is the cleric Hojjatolislam Mohammad Jafar Amir Mahallati. He got a masters degree at the University of Kansas and a Ph.D. from McGill University in Canada (he boasts about his doctorate in Islamology, which was improbably granted for a single year of graduate study)."
Sacramento, California, United States
"Mousavian studied at Sacramento City College and got his bachelors degree in engineering from Sacramento State in 1981."
Santa Barbara, California, United States
"We have Meysam Zamanabadi of Glendora, another Los Angeles suburb (Pride of the Foothills), who has been rumored to control the X account of Irans parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. The non-English-speaking Ghalibaf taunts Americans about gasoline prices with witty gibes like Enjoy the current pump figures. With the so-called blockade, soon youll be nostalgic for $4-$5 gas. This was accompanied by a Google Maps screenshot of Washington, D.C., displaying gas prices ranging from $4.10 to $4.80 a gallon. (Is Zamanabadi/Ghalibaf trying too hard to distance himself from Glendora? I live a 40-minute drive from every California Iranian mentioned so far, and I am two blocks away from $7 gas.) Zamanabadi has a degree in media psychology from Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara."
Glendora, California, United States
"We have Meysam Zamanabadi of Glendora, another Los Angeles suburb (Pride of the Foothills), who has been rumored to control the X account of Irans parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf."

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