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Question: This week  one of IRIBâs popular nightly talk shows was dedicated to the protests. The Channel Two show featured Ahmad Amirabadi Farahani  a conservative MP  and  Reza Seraj   introduced as an âexpert on strategic questions and a university professor.â
 Seraj  is well-known to many Iranian activists  although not exactly in those terms. Many of the thousands who have gone through the notorious interrogations blindfolded in Tehranâs Evin Prison remember his voice as an âexpert interrogator.â He is known for meting out psychological torture rather than physical torture by flaunting his supposed knowledge of the intricate webs of espionage with which any given activist is allegedly involved.
Born in the southwestern city of Ahvaz in 1966   Seraj  has cut  his  teeth in different wings of the IRGC  especially its autonomous volunteer paramilitary  the Basij. One story alleges that in 1988  the then-21-year-old Seraj galvanized a group of angry Basijis to stop a speech by Ali Khameneiâwho was president at the timeâto soldiers on the frontlines of the war with Iraq. Back then  President Khamenei was engaged in a power struggle with Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi  who was regarded as being more revolutionary and closer to the founder of the Islamic Republic  Ayatollah Khomeini.
As it turned out  two decades later  in 2009   Seraj  played a lead role in defending Khamenei  by then the supreme leader  harassing and torturing supporters of Mousavi  who was by that time the leader of the Green Movement that threatened Khamenei.
â 'The Americans  the Israelis and the Saudis had a strategic operational plan that was to be put in action next year '  Seraj  said  'but some factors led them into hastening  it .' â
 Seraj  headed the student organization of Basij from 2008 to 2010 and was lauded by the pro-IRGC Fars News Agency as a transformative Basiji figure. In the years since  he has become known for working with outlets like Fars and the state broadcaster to defend the regime and spin tales of foreign espionage.
His real identity didnât remain hidden for long. Ali Afshari  the student activist who was driven to exile after bouts of prison and torture in Iran  recalled  Seraj  very well in an interview he gave to the New Haven-based Iran Human Rights Documentation Center.
âWhen I gave up  they had taken my blindfold [off] and I could see my interrogator â Afshari said. âHe introduced himself as Alavi but I later found out that his name was Seraj. He sometimes writes for Fars now and is the head of student Basij. I complained to the judge and asked for a different interrogator.  Seraj  used to tell me that it was  he  who told the judge what to do  not the other way around.â
Adding more to spice up the story  Amirabadi claimed that part of the U.S. plan was to bring the forces of ISIS to Iranian territory  but this had been thwarted by the Quds Force (a part of the IRGC which is not supposed to operate on Iranian territory) and the Unknown Soldiers of the Twelfth Imam (the name used for the forces of Iranâs ministry of intelligence.)  Seraj  quickly agreed with this claim.
According to  Seraj   now that the Americansâ âPlan Aâ had been defeated  they had resorted to âPlan B â which had been started by U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haleyâs calling on the United Nations Security Council to meet about Iran.
âTheir plan is to lead Iran to miscalculation and to change its behavior according to what U.S. and the European countries want â  Seraj  said. âThey had designed a game of dominoes. The Americans were to threaten us with leaving the JCPOA [nuclear agreement] and ramping up the sanctions while the Europeans were to play the good cop.â
Confirming "the Conspiracy" and Worries for Whatâs  Next
Seraj  doesnât officially speak for the IRGC so someone unfamiliar with  his  significance might dismiss  his  elaborate theory as the thoughts of one man. But Iranian Chief Prosecutor Mohammad Jafar Montazeri has given a version of events that coincides very closely with Serajâs.
Montazeri then gave numerous details to back up the story put forth by  Seraj  and Amirabadiâand added some new claims. The cities of Herat in Afghanistan and Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan had been picked as centers of operation  he said  and ISIS forces were to come to Iran from there. He also claimed that Michael DâAndreaâwho was revealed in U.S. media reports back in June as the newly appointed head of the CIAâs Iran Mission Centerâhad organized the protests  a claim previously made by some pro-government Turkish newspapers (these reports were so inaccurate they had mistakenly published photographs of U.S. actors instead of DâAndrea.)
The Green Movement of 2009 was followed by Stalinesque show trials during which the accused confessed to involvement in elaborate espionage plans.  Seraj  is known to have played a role in concocting those fantasy plans. So  now  many worry that a similar fate awaits more than 1 500 people who have been arrested over the last few days.

Answer: Reza Seraj


Question: (CNN)  Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci  suggested that John Kelly is handling the fallout from the Rob Porter scandal poorly by trying to "cover it up."
"The cover-up is always worse than the crime "  Scaramucci  told David Axelrod in an upcoming segment of "The Axe Files " a podcast from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN.
"I would say  'Jeez  you know  I knew about it. I was going to give the guy a pass because he told me it wasn't true and I apologize to the American people for that. He's been let go and I'd still like to keep my job "'  Scaramucci  explained. "That's what I would do if I was General Kelly."
 Scaramucci  said if  he  were the White House chief of staff   he  wouldn't say  he  "didn't know about it when ( he ) knew about it or try to cover it."
"We're in a society now where everyone's going to find out everything anyway "  he  noted.

Answer: Anthony Scaramucci


Question: Meryl Streep  tells the Hollywood Reporter âwe are on the way to something betterâ in the aftermath of the deluge of sex assault scandals  but the actress remains silent about one thing; Her support for child rapist and multiple time sex abuser Roman Polanski.
 Streep  appears on the front cover of this monthâs Hollywood Reporter magazine with Steven Spielberg alongside the words  âSpielbergâs post-feminismâ and a blurb about how their new movie  is perfectly timed âamid todayâs attacks on womenâ.
Does " feminist" Meryl Streep  still support Roman Polanski  who raped a 13-year-old girl & now faces 7 new accusations of sexual assault against women & children? pic.twitter.com/BL4LSXLFrt â Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) December 5  2017
Itâs somewhat odd that  Streep  sees  herself  as a feminist champion of powerful women in the face of an army of male sexual abusers  given that  she  has vehemently supported and failed to disavow one of the biggest abusers of them all â pedophile Roman Polanski.
And what does  Meryl Streep  have to say about all this?
 She  was part of a Hollywood movement that repeatedly campaigned for Polanskiâs release and for his ability to return to the United States over the past 15 years.
 Streep   along with numerous other members of the Hollywood elite  gave Polanksi a standing ovation at the Academy Awards in 2003 after Polanski was awarded an Oscar for The Pianist.
Thereâs no plausible deniability here. Unlike with Weinstein   Streep  canât claim  she  didnât know Polanski was a child rapist. Everybody knew.
Every time  she  has been asked about Roman Polanski   Streep  has defended him.  She  has not disavowed the admitted child rapist and accused serial sex abuser of women and children in the two months since the Hollywood and political sex abuse scandal broke.
How can  Streep  legitimately call  herself  a âfeministâ and say  she  is standing up for female victims of sexual assault given this refusal to disavow?
 Meryl Streep herself  referred to Harvey Weinstein as âGodâ during a 2012 speech  labeling him âthe punisherâ.
 Meryl Streep  2017: Weinstein is "disgraceful".  Meryl Streep  2012: Weinstein is "God " he's "the punisher".[Link] pic.twitter.com/QCvdLy47s0 â Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) October 9  2017
This kind of rampant hypocrisy is par for the course when dealing with Hollywood celebrities  but  Streep  takes it to another level.
Lena Dunham was vilified when she took the side of a male colleague accused of sexual assault  yet  Streep  has refused to withdraw her support for admitted rapist Roman Polanski and she is given a free pass.

Answer:
Meryl Streep