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Inside Iran’s Influence Operation
Inside Iran’s Influence Operation
From left: Ali Vaez, Ariane Tabatabai, Dina Esfandiary, Adnan Tabatabai, and Robert Malley. (Photo illustration by The Free Press)
How the Iranian regime insinuated itself into official Washington.
By Jay Solomon
09.27.23 — U.S. Politics
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Inside Iran’s Influence Operation

We are living through a strange but wonderful moment in which many of the country’s best reporters no longer work inside legacy publications. Instead, they work in new newsrooms, including this one.

Among those reporters is Jay Solomon, who used to break stories for The Wall Street Journal. Now he writes about foreign affairs and national security for S…

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Jay Solomon

Jay Solomon is one of the U.S.’s premier investigative journalists and writers, with a global track record that goes back nearly 30 years. He was The Wall Street Journal’s chief foreign affairs correspondent for over a decade, during which he broke some of Washington’s largest stories, such as the Obama administration’s secret cash shipments to Iran. He also served tours in the Middle East, India, and East Asia. He’s an expert on international sanctions, illicit finance, nuclear proliferation, and cyber warfare.

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