Potkin Azamehr

The American Spectator

October 05, 2018



.....Ayatollah Bushehri

Ayatollah Bushehri is no ordinary Shiite clergy.

He is very much part and parcel of the Islamic Republic’s political establishment.

Bushehri is a member of the so-called “Assembly of Experts” — a deliberative body (of which all but one of the members are clerics) to which the Supreme Leader is ostensibly accountable.

Members of this council are elected by the people, but their candidacies first require the approval of the Supreme Leader himself.

Unsurprisingly, the Assembly of Experts has never challenged a Supreme Leader’s rulings.

Bushehri is also the Friday prayer leader for Qom — appointed by Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, to deliver sermons that advance the Supreme Leader’s agenda.





....This is not the first time Ayatollah Bushehri has been to Austria.

On February 19, 2017, he went on a “missionary tour” to Vienna and held a series of lectures at the Imam Ali Islamic Center, which openly identifies itself as a representative office of Iran’s Supreme Leader.

In 2017, an Austrian government report concluded that the Imam Ali mosque advocates “the destruction of the Jewish state” and that its imams are teaching Austrian Shiites about “a global conspiracy of Western and Arab states seeking to destroy Iran.”

The Austrian government’s recent decision to clamp down on the Turkish regime’s network in Austria followed the widely-reported discovery that Turkish mosques in Austria were being used by the Ankara regime to promote Turkish Islamist ideology and conduct espionage.





In fact, U.S. government reports have noted that Austria is the center for Iranian intelligence operations in Europe, with 100 agents from Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security reportedly stationed there, who spy on, harass and threaten anti-regime Shiite and Iranian activists.