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Katrina Pierson

While everyone is out suggesting starting a new party with a cheesy name, simultaneously failing to understand history, my suggestion is simply to finish what we started.

If y’all don’t realize that you control the fate of Republican Party, you’re not paying attention.

https://twitter.com/KatrinaPierson/status/1353410022500397059

Richard Grenell

This is difficult to process. I’m so shocked to hear this.

I hate what cancer does to our families. She was way too young and this was incredibly fast. Please say a prayer for Nilda’s family.

https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1353413948817641472

Jeb Bush

Columba and I are saddened by the passing of Nilda Pedrosa. She died way too young. We will miss her very much. Prayers for Eliot and their children. So very tragic.

https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/1353411873018933249

We recently archived many pages from State.gov.

https://www.state.gov/404

Nilda Pedrosa

Nilda Pedrosa is currently the acting United States Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the United States Department of State, having assumed the role on September 28, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilda_Pedrosa

I mean, was it really particularly secret?

https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/1353321674884706304

Frequent New York Times Opinion Writer Was Secret Iranian Agent, Federal Prosecutors Charge

https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/01/20/frequent-new-york-times-opinion-writer-was-secret-iranian-agent-federal-prosecutors-charge/

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/press-release/file/1356341/download

The New York Times published more than a dozen opinion articles and letters to the editor by Kaveh Afrasiabi. A 2018 Times op-ed under his byline identified him as “a former adviser to Iran’s nuclear negotiation team.” A 2012 Times op-ed identified him as “a former political science professor at Tehran University and former adviser to Iran’s nuclear negotiation team.”

This week, Afrasiabi was arrested and charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent of the Iranian government.

A press release from the Department of Justice announcing the unsealing of a criminal complaint in the case says, “Since at least 2007 to the present, Afrasiabi has also been secretly employed by the Iranian government and paid by Iranian diplomats assigned to the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations in New York City (IMUN). Afrasiabi has been paid approximately $265,000 in checks drawn on the IMUN’s official bank accounts since 2007 and has received health insurance through the IMUN’s employee health benefit plans since at least 2011.”

The press release said that while employed by the Iranian UN mission, Afrasiabi “authored articles and opinion pieces espousing the Iranian government’s position.”