(IPT) A Detroit-area Shiite imam with direct ties to Iran’s leadership used a press conference last week to push disinformation and propaganda about the U.S. killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Quds Force Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
Soleimani ran the IRGC and served as the Iranian regime’s primary liaison with Islamic terrorist groups across the Middle East including Hamas, Hizballah, the Popular Mobilization Unit (PMU) militias in Iraq, the Houthis in Yemen, and the Assad regime in Syria.
Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi’s regime ties were never mentioned in the Detroit News‘ story. Instead, Elahi, imam at the Dearborn Heights-based Islamic House of Wisdom, was presented as just another concerned cleric.
Ayatollah Khomeini reportedly appointed Elahi as head of the “ideological and political department” of the Iranian Navy in 1979 after the revolution.
