Gen. Hossein Mohebbi, spokesman for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, stood at a Tehran news conference on Tuesday and presented a 25-page open letter to the American people. The letter urges voters to "remove from power the evil, deceitful, and violent politicians who are responsible for America's current state." Five weeks before the November 3 midterms.
The IRGC — a U.S.-designated terrorist organization — is telling Americans how to vote. And only one party's candidates fit the description of politicians they'd like to see removed.
"We can live together in peaceful coexistence," Mohebbi said, pitching Iran's vision of a post-Trump world. "Entrust your affairs to the wise, not the wily." The 25-26 page document calls on Americans to reject President Trump's policies, oppose U.S. support for Israel, and end what Tehran calls "Washington's foreign wars." If that reads like the platform of every progressive Senate candidate currently running ads in swing states, that's not an accident.
The timing is surgical. The letter dropped five weeks before Election Day, right as the IRGC's credibility at home is collapsing. The Iranian rial hit a record low this week — 2.5 million rials to one U.S. dollar. Oil exports, tracked by the analytics firm Kpler, hit roughly 10 million barrels daily in September, but that's still half the pre-war volume. The Trump administration's sanctions are working, and Tehran knows it.
So the IRGC did what any cornered regime does: tried to influence the electorate of the country squeezing it.
The State Department responded on Wednesday. A spokesman called the letter "the IRGC's desperate effort to lie to the American people" and dismissed it as "this false letter, the Iranian regime's latest act of desperation, is nothing more than a smokescreen." Clear enough.
What hasn't been clear is any response from the Democratic Party. As Conservative Brief reported, Democrats have not rejected the endorsement. No statement. No press conference. No "we don't want or need the support of a designated terrorist organization." The silence is the tell.
Mohebbi included a curious line: "The American people are not knowledgeable about many developments. We believe if they knew more, they would think differently." A terrorist organization lecturing Americans on being low-information voters. The same organization whose forces have been in direct warfare with the United States since February 28.
The IRGC kills Americans. That's not rhetoric — that's the operational history that earned the designation in the first place. Their proxies have targeted U.S. forces across the Middle East. Their missile program exists to threaten American allies. Their nuclear ambitions are the single most dangerous proliferation risk on the planet. And their official spokesman just held a press conference to explain which American politicians they'd prefer.
Every political endorsement tells you something about the endorser and something about the endorsed. When the NRA backs a candidate, we know what that candidate's position on firearms is. When a teachers union backs a candidate, we know where that candidate stands on school choice. When a U.S.-designated terrorist organization whose motto includes "Death to America" publishes a 25-page letter urging the removal of one party's leader five weeks before an election, the inference isn't subtle.
Democrats could end this in one sentence. They haven't written it.