Religious foundation secretly recruiting spies for Iran, funding terrorism, report says

Religious foundation secretly recruiting spies for Iran, funding terrorism, report says

Religious foundation secretly recruiting spies for Iran, funding terrorism, report says

A supposed Iranian religious foundation is in fact secretly funding terrorism and spies, such as the recruitment of former Air Force intelligence specialist Monica Witt, who defected to Iran in 2013 with valuable security secrets, a dissident group is claiming in a new report.

Religious foundation secretly recruiting spies for Iran, funding terrorism, report says
Religious foundation secretly recruiting spies for Iran, funding terrorism, report says

The Astan-e Quds Razavi (AQR) foundation promotes its work as maintaining Shiite Muslim shrines and promoting the spread of Islam. Iranian state media regularly send out stories on AQR’s benign deeds abroad.

But a new report by the National Council of Resistance of Iran contends the foundation actually funds groups such as Lebanese Hezbollah movement, which the U.S. government calls a terrorist organization. The AQR Foundation also sets up international conferences and invites foreign visitors who are targeted for recruitment as possible spies “without attracting any attention or being held accountable,” the 15-page NCRI report states.

This, the report says, is how Iran found Ms. Witt.

Ms. Witt left the Air Force in 2008, according to Justice Department charges brought in February, after gaining access to some of the nation’s top classified programs. She was both an intelligence officer and special investigator who traveled overseas on secret missions.

Read more at: Washington Times

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