https://www.cnsnews.com/index.php/commentary/hanif-jazayeri/stanford-under-influence-irans-lobby

A group known as the Iranian regime’s most effective lobby in the United States has quietly gained a foothold at Stanford University, and one of its senior officials has just gained a seat on the prestigious academic institution’s governing board.

The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) lobbies for a lenient approach to Iran’s regime, which includes ending the United Nations arms embargo on Tehran. It condemned the U.S. administration for designating the regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a terrorist group and for eliminating IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani in an airstrike. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 2012 found that Trita Parsi, president of the group, was “first and foremost an advocate for the regime.”

Stanford announced on its website on Jul. 13, 2020, that from Oct. 1, Lily Sarafan would begin a six-year term on the university’s Board of Trustees.

It introduced her as the CEO of Home Care Assistance (HCA), a large San Francisco-based company. What the press release failed to mention was that Sarafan was listed as the chair of NIAC’s board of directors in the group’s 2015 IRS filing.

Lily Sarafan has been active as a donor, fundraiser, and speaker for NIAC. She routinely joins NIAC delegations lobbying lawmakers on Capitol Hill in support of the regime’s talking points.

A Dec. 19, 2019 report on NIAC’s website suggests that Sarafan also helped fund a program for appointing NIAC members as Congressional staffers.

What’s more, Sarafan was in Iran in 2015 to attend a TEDx event which, according to NIAC, she had helped organize. The event was co-sponsored by Iran’s Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology.

I wonder if these guys were part of that program

https://dailycaller.com/2017/02/04/exclusive-house-intelligence-it-staffers-fired-in-computer-security-probe/

Brothers Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives

Now we know what Obama knew and when he knew it. And we know what he chose to do. He chose to divide us.

https://townhall.com/columnists/larryoconnor/2020/10/07/obama-could-have-united-us-by-revealing-what-he-knew-about-hillary-instead-he-divided-us-further-n2577640

He didn't have to stay silent. He could have told us all that he knew, and if he had, he would have finally become the uniter he claims to be. But he didn't.

President Barack Obama could have addressed the American people in November 2016 and said:

"My fellow Americans, we have just gone through a tumultuous and unprecedented election. I supported and campaigned for Secretary Clinton and opposed Donald Trump's campaign with every ounce of my soul, and we lost. It hurts. But that's how things go in our great Democratic Republic.

"Now, I have been hearing news reports that Mr. Trump's campaign worked covertly with a foreign country to meddle in our election and therefore won this election through criminal activity and is not a legitimate president.

"That is not true. In fact, the evidence that we have seen suggests that these reports are actually fabricated as a part of Mrs. Clinton's opposition research campaign. Let me repeat, there is no evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia, and the suggestion that there is evidence of such behavior was fabricated by Mrs. Clinton.

"I am instructing Attorney General Loretta Lynch to recuse herself and have asked President-Elect Trump to join me in asking for an independent counsel to investigate whether Mrs. Clinton, members of her campaign, or anyone in my administration may have violated the law.

"Our country deserves no less.

"Now, we must move on, together, and we Democrats have to learn some lessons and live to fight another day.

"Donald Trump is the president-elect, and I call on Mrs. Clinton, members of my administration, and all Americans to put this election behind us and unite behind him as our legitimate president."