When Ariane Tabatabai went to work at the U.S. State Department with her friend Rob Malley, who’d been appointed as Joe Biden’s Iran envoy, in early 2021, some Republicans in Congress raised hell because of her connections to a known Iranian intelligence front group, Iran Experts Initiative (IEI), and her family’s close ties to the Iranian government. In numerous mainstream media stories those legitimate concerns were brushed aside as anti-Islamic bigotry, and the administration joined in that chorus.Read More