Despite Iran Spy, NBC Alarmed By Security Conference Targeting Regime

Nicholas Fondacaro | February 13, 2019
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On Wednesday, Americans learned that, during the Obama years, U.S. intelligence officer Monica Witt was recruited to be a spy by Iran and fed them sensitive information, including the identities of intelligence sources. Despite Iran’s clear effort to harm America, NBC Nightly News ran a report fretting a U.S. led conference aimed at further squeezing the radical regime. And here’s the kickers, at report came immediately after the story about the Iran spy.

NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell was at the conference in Warsaw, Poland to seemingly whine about every aspect of it. “Some of our biggest allies are not sending top diplomats here. France, Germany, England,” she chided Vice President Mike Pence just after admitting it was “the first Arab/Israeli summit largely aimed at pressuring Iran.

Mitchell appeared flabbergasted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu taking a combative stance, and almost offended by a report that claimed the U.S. was sabotaging the Iranian ballistic missile program:

But tonight, Israel's prime minister set off alarms tweeting they were there “to advance the common interest of war with Iran.” Then within the hour, taking out the word "war" and writing instead, “to advance the common interest of combating Iran.”

Adding to tension, The New York Times report that the U.S. may be secretly sabotaging Iran's missiles and rockets. And an anti-Iran rally here by a group represented by the President's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.

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