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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.
Reza Seraj

The home-made submarine "UC3 Nautilus"  built by Danish inventor Peter Madsen  who is charged with killing Swedish journalist Kim Wall in his submarine  sails in the harbour of Copenhagen  Denmark  August 10  2017. REUTERS/Peter Thompson
 Wall  a freelance journalist who was researching a story on submarine owner Peter Madsen   went missing after  he  took  her  out to sea in the 17-metre (56-foot) submarine in August.
On Aug. 23  police identified a headless female torso that washed ashore in Copenhagen as that of Wall. In October  police said they had recovered  her  head and legs.
 Madsen  admitted to dismembering Wall on board  his  submarine and dumping  her  body parts in the sea  but  he  still denies murdering  her  and a charge of sexual assault without intercourse.
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 Rich Rodriguez  was fired as the University of Arizona's head football coach after a notice of claim alleging a hostile workplace was filed. (Photo: Casey Sapio/USA TODAY NETWORK)
The Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday came to the defense of  fired University of Arizona football coach Rich Rodriguez   questioning part of the account of  his  former assistant who has accused  him  of sexually harassing her and creating a hostile work environment.
The university fired  Rodriguez  late Tuesday  following bombshell allegations in a nine-page legal claim from  his  former administrative assistant  Melissa Wilhelmsen. University of Arizona officials said the school had grown uncomfortable with the direction of the program on the field and fired  him  without cause.
 Rodriguez  has denied the allegations  except that  he  had an extramarital affair that Wilhelmsen said she was forced to help cover up.  Rodriguez  is likely to receive a $6.3 million buyout of the remainder of  his  contract.
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Wilhelmsen claimed  among other things  that  Rodriguez  fondled her  tried to kiss her  said he was in love with her and wouldn't let Wilhelmsen leave her job in February 2016  when her husband was being considered as head security officer for the Diamondbacks.
Wilhelmsen's claim alleges  Rodriguez  protested  saying: "No  I can't lose you " and offered to set up an apartment for her to continue working for  him . "Melissa told  him  she was unwilling to do that " the claim states.
Ken Kendrick  owner of the Diamondbacks  has been a close friend of  Rodriguez 's for at least 15 years. Both have ties to West Virginia University  where  Rodriguez  once coached.
Kendrick on Wednesday told The Arizona Republic he is a longtime supporter of  Rodriguez  and acknowledged that he is biased to defend his friend  though he did not condone the affair.
Still  Kendrick said  Rodriguez  clearly was looking out for the best interest of  his  assistant when  he  tried to help her husband get a job with the Diamondbacks.
Kendrick said  Rodriguez  strongly recommended Jason Wilhelmsen  Melissa's husband  for the team's security job.
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Diamondbacks team President Derrick Hall said Melissa Wilhelmsen personally emailed her husband's resume to Kendrick's assistant on Jan. 27  2016  because she knew  Rodriguez  and Kendrick were close friends. Hall said the resume arrived just as the team was closing its search for candidates.
Hall said  Rodriguez  called Kendrick the next day and Jason Wilhelmsen was interviewed the following month.

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