EXCLUSIVE Saudi Spy Met With Team Trump About Taking Down Iran

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast



Mueller’s investigators examined a series of meetings between an Israeli social media strategist, the general blamed for Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, and Trump adviser Michael Flynn.

Betsy Woodruff, Erin Banco
10.25.18 1:00 PM ET

Gen. Ahmed Al-Assiri, the Saudi intelligence chief taking the fall for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, hobnobbed in New York with Michael Flynn and other members of the transition team shortly before Trump’s inauguration. The topic of their discussion: regime change in Iran.

Mohammed bin Salman, the powerful Saudi crown prince, dispatched Assiri from Riyadh for the meetings, which took place over the course of two days in early January 2017, according to communications reviewed by The Daily Beast. The January meetings have come under scrutiny by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office as part of his probe into foreign governments’ attempts to gain influence in the Trump campaign and in the White House, an individual familiar with the investigation told The Daily Beast. A spokesperson for Mueller declined to comment.

The New York meetings were attended and brokered by George Nader, a Lebanese-American with close ties to leaders in the United Arab Emirates who is currently cooperating with Mueller’s team. Also present at the meetings was Israeli social media strategist Joel Zamel, who has been questioned by Mueller for his role in pitching top campaign officials on an influence operation to help Trump win the election—overtures that could have broken federal election laws.

Steve Bannon was involved as well in conversations on Iran regime change during those two days in January, according to the communications.


Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/saudi-spy-met-with-team-trump-about-taking-down-iran?ref=home

[Bfd]

1. Thanks for this thread, DonViejo. Flynn, of course!

This is reading like the biggest crime novel ever written.

#MuellerIsMyGod

[thbobby]

2. This seems very significant, IMO

but so often, things I think about trump being important receive little attention. Talk of regime change in Iran with a Saudi who killed a journalist. Seems big.

[karynnj]

3. Consider this IS conspiring with foreign countries contrary to the official US policy

Obama was the President then. This might explain why Trump himself and his minions all claimed that Kerry, in talking to FM Zarif on the sidelines of the UN and other conventions was illegal - even though Kerry did nothing the least bit illegal.

Here, it is clear that before even being in office, Trump was in bed with the neo cons who have wanted a war with Iran for at least a decade. The Iran nuclear deal averted that war and even now, with the rest of the world still in and the US itself hestitating on restoring some pre nuclear deal sanctions, it makes that war less likely than it was in mid 2015 before the deal happened.

[Merlot]

4. Was this the story that Khashoggi had?

I read somewhere that he had a story linking the trumpft admin and the saudis to something and that's why he was killed.