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One of the regime’s more influential propagandists has been quietly working from the security of suburban Southern California — all while reportedly accumulating a fats month-to-month paycheck from Tehran.
Meysam Zamanabadi, a longtime close advisor to Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who has deep ties to the Iranian regime stretching back to his days as Tehran mayor and head of law enforcement, has been residing in Glendora, California, for almost a decade.
Zamanabadi manages Ghalibaf’s English-language X account, churning out slick, meme-heavy anti-American content aimed squarely at impressionable—nay, gullible—U.S. audiences.
Is it any marvel that Democrat politicians are so simply duped by blatant Iranian propaganda on social media, when sure operations are producing from American soil, by operatives who converse English and post utilizing emojis and Gen Z memes?
Zamanabadi, according to an analysis by Iranwire, is a “pivotal advisor” for Ghalibaf, who served time as Police Chief and Mayor of Tehran, and continues to rake in a not-unhealthy $11,000 per month from the Iranians.
Financial audits performed by the Tehran City Council in 2017 revealed that even after transferring to America, he obtained a month-to-month sum of 40 million Tomans (equal to roughly $11,000 at the time). This was paid in international currency through an exchange workplace in Ferdowsi Square via an particular person named Hesamuddin Sahami, the then technical director of Tamashagar magazine.
WAR: Iran’s English-language propaganda operation is headquartered in Glendale, California. Meysam Zamanabadi has managed Iranian Parliament social media for years from US soil. He advises the Parliament Speaker instantly. The Islamic Republic has been working its wartime… pic.twitter.com/qd7MYiqkGn
— @amuse (@amuse) April 13, 2026
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Zamanabadi helps to fire off materials for Ghalibaf’s X account, clearly aimed at an American viewers to sway public opinion on behalf of the Iranian regime. As evidenced by the use of English-language tweets, memes, hashtags, and emojis.
Iranwire notes one such state of affairs during the warfare with Iran, in which the California-based propagandist gloated that President Trump was the “loser of the war,” painted the United States as collapsing economically, and boasted that the Islamic Republic’s new management had introduced both America and Israel to their knees.
It will get even more absurd. Zamanabadi reportedly moonlights as a media analyst at Ad Fontes Media, a Colorado-based media watchdog that charges U.S. news shops for “bias.”
Via the Washington Free Beacon:
A former paid scribe for an Iranian state-affiliated newspaper now works for a U.S. media watchdog group recognized for producing a “media bias” chart that charges liberal shops as more dependable than conservative ones.
This form of slick, English-language affect operation proved incomprehensibly efficient during the latest battle. When Iranian accounts pushed claims that dozens of “shadow fleet” tankers had breezed past the U.S. naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, distinguished voices on the American left swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.
The hazard isn’t just that an Iranian regime propagandist resides comfortably in Glendora while drawing a paycheck from Tehran — it’s that his long-term immersion in American tradition offers him insight into precisely how to craft propaganda that resonates with Trump Derangement Syndrome victims on the left.
Zamanabadi is aware of exactly which buttons to push to get gullible Democrats echoing regime speaking factors in real time. Allowing regime brokers to operate freely on U.S. soil will enable Tehran to continue exploiting home political divisions to the detriment of America.
He is an lively agent of a hostile international authorities and must be deported — or at a minimal, have his immigration standing immediately reviewed, revoked if he holds a inexperienced card or visa, and eliminated from the United States.
Editor’s Note: For many years, former presidents have been all discuss and no motion. Now, Donald Trump is eliminating the risk from Iran once and for all.
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