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Spotlight: US Congress Probes Iranian Influence in American Mosques
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Lawmakers have called on the Biden Administration to investigate four Shi'a mosques in the United States they believe are working on behalf of Iran's Islamist government.
In a July 28 letter shepherded to publication by Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., lawmakers asked Attorney General Merrick Garland and Avril Haines, director of National Intelligence, to investigate Shi'a religious institutions across the U.S.
Citing information published in Focus on Western Islamism, the lawmakers declare that the mosques appear to form "a network of regime-sponsored mosques acting as agents for a foreign adversary."
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