Some of the "intelligence" about Iran that the conman cites comes from the propaganda campaign of the US-supported terrorist group Mojahedin-e-Khalq, which attributes it to a fictional person — in effect, a US sock-puppet.

This group was formerly designated by the US as a terrorist group, but a campaign backed apparently by powerful influence and funds got that designation changed a few years ago.

It is an injustice to designate groups as "terrorist" without a trial, but there was a factual basis to consider it a US-sponsored terrorist group.