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The head of Iran’s Basij Organization, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naghdi — using a phrase first introduced by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — warned Jan. 29 that the intention of the United States is to “infiltrate” Iran.
“Today, the enemy has agents of infiltration,” Naghdi said at a gathering of religious singers. According to Naghdi, one of the agents of infiltration was Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, who was accused of spying for the United States and was released along with three other Iranian-Americans also held in Iran. Naghdi suggested the United States was so determined to infiltrate Iran that it “is ready even to give back $1.7 billion of blocked money in return for Jason Rezaian.”
