(Free Beacon) The Pentagon must immediately revoke the security clearance of a senior official alleged this week to be part of a secret Iranian government-run propaganda network, a coalition of Republican senators said in a Friday letter to the Department of Defense as they launched an investigation into the matter.
Republican lawmakers on the Senate Armed Services Committee have initiated an official probe into the Biden administration’s hiring of Ariane Tabatabai, a senior Pentagon official with top-secret security clearance. Tabatabai was outed in a Semafor report as an alleged member of an Iranian-run influence network that reported back to Tehran’s foreign ministry and helped push its policies among Washington policymakers.
The letter was exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon on Friday afternoon and is endorsed by 30 Republican senators, including Roger Wicker (Miss.), the Senate Armed Services Committee’s ranking member.
