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Michael d'Andrea (aka Ayatollah Mike), #CIA officer, responsible for:

➛ The killing of Martyr #Soleimani & #Mughniyeh
➛ Mastermind behind the unrest in Iran
➛ Expansion of the CIA's drone strike program in Pakistan & Yemen
➛ killing of 300 Iraqi demonstrators
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Dark Prince or Ayatollah Mike are nicknames given to CIA chief officer d' #Andrea. He joined CIA in 1979. It was not until April 2015 that a NYT journalist, Mark Mazzetti, finally outed him. A month after D’Andrea left his post as director of the #CIA’s Counterterrorism Center
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In 2008, D'Andrea was responsible in the killing of Imad #Mughniyeh, operations chief of #Hezbollah. With the aid of Israeli's Mossad, the CIA used a car bomb to kill Mughniyeh.
Mughniyeh was the mastermind in the fight against occupied #Palestine.
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D'andrea is also responsible for the killing of 300 Iraqi demonstrators.
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At the same time, D'Andrea was ramping up the drone program inside #Pakistan. Drones became the favourite "counterterrorism" tool of President Barack #Obama.
The signature strike in particular. The CIA was given allowance to kill anyone who fit a certain profile.
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The American drone strike campaign killed thousands of militants and hundreds of innocent civilians, in Pakistan.
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His first overseas assignments were in east Africa, where he met his wife and "converted to Islam" in order to marry her. Faridah Currimjee D’Andrea, almost 10 years older than her husband is daughter of a wealthy family from the Mauritius with Gujarati origins.
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#Currimjees own a family business and are operating in different business sectors such as Telecoms, Media, Real Estate, Tourism, Financial Services and Energy. Faridah is one of the senior directors of Currimjee group and her family firms can be used as #CIA covers.
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New York Times reported that “the agency also expanded its drone program to #Yemen under Mr. D’Andrea’s direction, and many in the CIA credit him.
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in June, 2017, US #NYT published an article by Matthew Rosenberg and Adam Goldman entitled “CIA names the Dark Prince to run Iran Operations…,” in which the authors introduced the US guy who, according to Iranian security officials, has been behind the unrest in Iran.
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In 2017, the #CIA created a special unit—the Iran Mission Center—to focus attention on the US plans against Iran. The initiative for this unit came from former CIA director John Brennan.
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The CIA appointed Michael D’Andrea to head of Iran Mission Center ( #IMC). What is germane to his post at the Iran Mission Center is that D’Andrea is close to the Gulf #Arabs, states Vijay Prashad in his news report.
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The Gulf Arabs have been pushing hard for action against Iran, a view shared by D’Andrea and parts of his team. For his hard-nosed attitude towards Iran, D’Andrea is known—ironically—as “Ayatollah Mike.”
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D’Andrea and people like #Bolton are part of an ecosystem who have a visceral hatred for Iran and who are close to the worldview of the #Saudi royal family.
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D’Andrea’s twin outside the White House is Thomas #Kaplan, the billionaire who set up two groups that are blindingly operate for "regime" change in Iran. United Against Nuclear Iran ( #UANI) and Counter Extremism Project.
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These groups—and #Kaplan himself—promote an agenda of great disparagement of Muslims in general and of Iran in particular.
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Kaplan blamed Iran for the creation of #ISIS, for it was Iran—Kaplan said—that “used a terrible Sunni movement” to expand its reach from “Persia to the Mediterranean.”
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Kaplan, shares more with ISIS than (as accused by the west) Iran does with that group—since both Kaplan and ISIS are driven by their hatred of those who follow the #Shia traditions of #Islam.
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Head of #UANI, Mark #Wallace, who is the chief executive of Kaplan’s Tigris Financial Group, a financial firm with investments—which it admits—would benefit from:

“instability in the Middle East.”
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Working with UANI and the Counter Extremism Project is Norman #Roule, a former national intelligence manager for Iran in the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
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#Roule has offered his support to the efforts of the Arabia Foundation, run by Ali #Shihabi—a man with close links to the Saudi monarchy. The Arabia Foundation was set up to do more effective public relations work for the Saudis than the Saudi diplomats are capable of doing.
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Shihabi is the son of one of Saudi Arabia’s most well-regarded diplomats, Samir al- #Shihabi, who played an important role as Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Pakistan during the war that created al- #Qaeda.
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Kaplan and Bolton, Andrea & Shihabi, are eager to use the full force of the US military to further the dangerous goals of the Gulf Arab royals (SA & UAE). When Pompeo walked before cameras, he carried their water for them. These are men on a mission. They want war against Iran...

Earlier in 2020, after the #US terrorist assassination on Qassem #Soleimani, Russian intelligence sources have confirmed that Michael D’Andrea has been killed in #Taliban’s shoot-down of a US military plane in Ghazni.
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Whether or not he's still alive, is unclear and not known. Mike has had a previous record of being 'under the shadow'. His death rumour might play in his advantage. We might hear from him again in a couple of year, only god knows.