(Algemeiner) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called on US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to “clarify” her warning from earlier this week that “actors tied to Iran’s government” have encouraged and provided financial support to anti-Israel protests that have erupted across the US during the ongoing war in Gaza.
CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell decried the US intelligence community’s statement that Iran has influenced the rampant, sometimes violent protests against Israel’s defensive military operations in Gaza, insisting that the demonstrations were organized “organically and independently.” He argued that Haines’s statement could incite hate crime attacks against Muslim and Palestinian protesters opposing the so-called “genocide” in Gaza.
