<p>A D.C.-area mosque pledged its loyalty on Sunday to &#8220;Our Leader Shaheed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,&#8221; mourning his &#8220;martyrdom&#8221; after the Iranian dictator was killed in a U.S.-Israeli operation.</p>
<p>The Manassas Mosque is a sponsor, alongside left-wing groups like CodePink and the D.C. chapter of Democratic Socialists of America, of a &#8220;Stop the war on Iran&#8221; march on the White House planned for Monday night.</p>
<p>On its <a href="https://www.instagram.com/manassasmosque/?hl=en">Instagram</a> page, the mosque calls Iran&#8217;s dictator — not America&#8217;s elected representatives — its leader, and demands to &#8220;end US-Zionist aggression.&#8221; The picture was deleted after The Daily Wire captured it.</p>
<div id="attachment_1052149" style="width: 380px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1052149" class="size-large wp-image-1052149" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/HCaZ46IWsAAnrH4-Edited-370x576.jpg" alt="" width="370" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/HCaZ46IWsAAnrH4-Edited-370x576.jpg 370w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/HCaZ46IWsAAnrH4-Edited-193x300.jpg 193w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/HCaZ46IWsAAnrH4-Edited-768x1194.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/HCaZ46IWsAAnrH4-Edited.jpg 922w" sizes=" (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px" /><p id="caption-attachment-1052149" class="wp-caption-text">Screenshot via Manassas Mosque Instagram</p></div>
<p>The mosque, about 30 minutes from the Pentagon in D.C.&#8217;s Virginia outskirts, is funded by the Alavi Foundation, which has spent tens of millions of dollars in America. The U.S. government has alleged that the foundation is a front for the Iranian regime.</p>
<p>In 2023, nine GOP congressmen <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/gop-reps-raise-alarm-bells-irans-influence-american-religious-institutions">wrote</a> to the Biden administration&#8217;s attorney general and director of national security, saying that the Manassas mosque received $200,000 from the Alavi Foundation and &#8220;a recent video inside the Mosque showed it is adorned with pictures of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps &#8230; This appears to be part of a network of regime-sponsored mosques acting as agents for a foreign adversary.&#8221;</p>
<p>After the October 2023 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel, the Manassas Mosque issued a newsletter that said, &#8220;We stand firmly with the Palestinian Resistance (Hamas),&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/manassas-mosque/">InfluenceWatch</a>.</p>
<p>It has used racial divisions in the U.S. to infiltrate the Left, saying in 2020 that the death of George Floyd &#8220;exposes the facade of freedom and justice for all.&#8221;</p>
<p>In 2009, the then-head of the Alavi Foundation, Farshid Jahedi, was indicted for &#8220;allegedly destroying documents subpoenaed by a grand jury investigating the Alavi Foundation&#8217;s relationship with Bank Melli Iran and the ownership of a Manhattan office building,&#8221; the Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/nys/pressreleases/May09/Jahedi,%20Farshid%20Indictment%20PR.pdf">said</a>. <span class="md-plain md-expand">In 2010, during the Obama administration, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to </span><span class="md-meta-i-c md-link"><a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-slap-hand-of-alavis-ex-boss/"><span class="md-plain">only</span></a></span><span class="md-plain md-expand"> three months in prison and a $3,000 fine on two felony counts. </span></p>
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<h1>&#8220;They really have no idea what they&#8217;ve unleashed upon themselves. It is exactly in moments like this that resistance fighter are born.&#8221;</h1>
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<p>The group built a skyscraper at 650 Fifth Avenue in New York using a loan from Iran, and Alavi, for years, used front groups to hide the forbidden relationship, the DOJ said in a 2008 <a href="https://akamai-staging.justice.gov/usao-sdny/programs/victim-witness-services/united-states-v-all-right-title-and-interest-assa-corp-08-civ-10934-rjh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forfeiture action</a> against the Assa Corp., which the DOJ said was an offshore front group used by Alavi. In 2019, a jury verdict to seize the entire building for violating Iranian sanctions was overturned on appeal.</p>
<p>Its 2025 IRS filing includes <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/237345978/202542879349100704/full">buying land</a> in Virginia. It has also given <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/237345978/download990pdf_11_2021_prefixes_20-27%2F237345978_201803_990PF_2021110319126074">loans</a> for Muslims to study at U.S. colleges, and mortgages to establish new mosques in places like Beaverton, Oregon, and San Diego, California.</p>
<p>The Manassas Mosque&#8217;s imam is Abolfazl Bahram Nahidian, who in 2010 said that Israel was behind 9/11.</p>
<p>His daughter-in-law, Atefeh Rokhvand, has been a major player in high-profile, left-wing-adjacent advocacy against Israel.</p>
<p>A D.C. court ordered Rokhvand and others to pay a rabbi $182,000 for abusing the U.S. court system by attempting to have him prosecuted for &#8220;stalking&#8221; for coming to the Israeli embassy to pray, where they had staked out in a constant protest. A lawyer for Rokhvand previously replied to The Daily Wire&#8217;s questions by implying the rabbi was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-israel-activists-ordered-to-pay-182000-after-falsely-accusing-rabbi-of-stalking">greedy</a>, saying the $182,000 was for &#8220;over-inflated legal fees.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rokhvand was the &#8220;governor&#8221; of the around-the-clock stakeout of former Secretary of State Antony Blinken&#8217;s home, which involved throwing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/soros-prosecutor-wont-shut-down-pro-palestinian-encampment-outside-antony-blinkens-home">fake blood</a> on his vehicle as he returned home. She previously taught third grade at a school affiliated with the mosque, and founded Teachers Against Genocide.</p>
<div id="attachment_881199" style="width: 1210px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-881199" class="size-full wp-image-881199" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/02/embassy.jpg" alt="Hazami Barmada (center) and Atefeh Rokhvand (right) protesting the Israel embassy / Instagram" width="1200" height="600" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/02/embassy.jpg 1200w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/02/embassy-300x150.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/02/embassy-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/02/embassy-768x384.jpg 768w" sizes=" (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /><p id="caption-attachment-881199" class="wp-caption-text">Hazami Barmada (center) and Atefeh Rokhvand (right) protesting the Israeli embassy / Instagram</p></div>
<p>On Instagram, Rokhvand this week posted a screenshot of a tweet saying, &#8220;they just canonized Kahmenei [sic]. And they really have no idea what they&#8217;ve unleashed upon themselves. It is exactly in moments like this that resistance fighter are born.&#8221;</p>
<p>Radical Islamists in the D.C. area have often used their daughters to embed in local Democrat politics. Several of the 9/11 hijackers worshipped at a different mosque, whose imam was later drone-struck by Barack Obama as a member of Al Qaeda. The daughter of a board member who hired that imam was later elected to the Fairfax County school board, where she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/school-board-member-abrar-omeish-whose-father-led-september-11-hijackers-mosque-opposes-resolution-honoring-victims">opposed</a> a moment of silence honoring the victims of 9/11.</p>
<p>Several members of Congress, in response to The Daily Wire&#8217;s flagging of the mosque aligning with an enemy during wartime, called for members of the mosque to be denaturalized and deported.</p>
<p>&#8220;The enemy is inside the gates,&#8221; Rep. Keith Self (R-TX), a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Deport all who refuse to pledge allegiance to the United States of America,&#8221; Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) said.</p>
<p>&#8220;We need to get them the hell out of our country,&#8221; Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Deport them. Now,&#8221; Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said.</p>

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