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Meet the Internet’s New Iran Expert—Who Thinks the Illuminati Run the World
Xueqin Jiang got several predictions right, including Trump winning the 2024 election, but now the conspiracy theorist is considered an Iran expert. (Illustration by The Free Press)
Xueqin Jiang, a researcher at Harvard, believes that a coalition of Freemasons, Jesuits, and members of a defunct Jewish cult are conspiring to rule the world from Jerusalem.
By River Page
03.04.26 — Culture and Ideas
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Xueqin Jiang is riding high. The Beijing-based “predictive history” lecturer on YouTube—who is listed as a researcher at Harvard’s Global Education Innovation Initiative—predicted in 2024 that Donald Trump would win the election and start a war with Iran, and that the U.S. would eventually lose the war.

The accuracy of his first two predictions—particularly after Operation Midnight Hammer last June—earned him viral fame, the moniker of “China’s Nostradamus,” and a write-up in Newsweek. Now, some of his clips are going viral as Operation Epic Fury enters its fifth day, and the media is paying him mind once again. There’s just one problem—Jiang is a conspiracy theorist.

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River Page
River Page is a reporter at The Free Press.
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Iran
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