The White House regularly hosted Ariane Tabatabai, a senior Pentagon official with close ties to Iran, even after it was revealed that she had been at the heart of an Iranian influence network, advocating for Tehran and its agendas.
IRAN INTERNATIONAL -- Tabatabai is currently the chief of staff for the assistant secretary of defense for special operations, a position that grants her access to top secret information.
In September 2023, a joint investigation by Semafor and Iran International named her as one of the main figures in a network of analysts and scholars tasked by Iran’s foreign ministry officials to echo and amplify Tehran’s talking points.
Now a Free Beacon report has revealed that Tabatabai had eight meetings at the White House in the months following that revelation.