"She has practically acted as America's infantry inside Iran," wrote Fars News Agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The chain of cutthroat pieces targeted Faezeh Hashemi — a senior Reformist activist, former parliamentarian and daughter of late moderate ex-President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani — over her unprecedented diatribes against the powerful military organization.
Addressing a meeting on the social media platform Club House on April 17, Hashemi stressed the need for the IRGC to "retreat to its bases" because it "has been expanding its scope of activities on a daily basis."