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Well, well, well! I just shared info about Pardis Sabeti last week on my Stack. One of the more interesting discoveries I made researching her is who her father is. Parviz Sabeti. One of the most feared men in Iran under the Shah. Physical and psychological torturer, brutal repression of all dissidents, massive surveillance network, a seriously bad guy. And CIA product, given safe passage and a new life in the US when the Shah fell. In no small part due to his henchmen like Sabeti:

Torture and Denials of Rights Laid to Iran by Jurists’ Group

New York Times, May 29, 1976

https://archive.fo/cTKWI#selection-281.0-281.60

SAVAK: A Feared and Pervasive Force

Washington Post, May 9, 1977

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/05/09/savak-a-feared-and-pervasive-force/ad609959-d47b-4b7f-8c8d-b388116df90c

I explore more of her background in a long journey on a Magic Persian Carpet that also gets into eugenics, bioethics and...Jeffrey Epstein. Who maybe didn't kill himself for more reasons than just having the goods on other prominent pedophiles?:

https://freedomfox.substack.com/p/step-in-foxs-magic-carpet-ride

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She learned a lot about population control and virus study in Africa during Ebola. And developed "Lookout," an app for colleges to track who's been and may be sick, contact tracing and surveillance. And even gave a Ted Talk at the TED100 in April, 2020 on developing a new "early warning system.

https://www.ted.com/talks/pardis_sabeti_and_christian_happi_a_virus_detection_network_to_stop_the_next_pandemic

She's got a great publicist, glowing stories about her "saving the world, again." And being a "superhero without a cape."

Her criticism of authoritarian pandemic protocols is that they weren't used fast enough or harshly enough. So, so much disturbing about her.

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Pardis Sabeti Is Saving the World… Again

The Register Forum, The Student Newspaper of Cambridge, December 7, 2020

https://registerforum.org/12918/news/pardis-sabeti-is-saving-the-world-again/

Responding to this pandemic, preparing for the next

Harvard Gazette, May 13, 2020

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/05/pardis-sabetis-work-on-infectious-disease-coronavirus/

The Future of Virus Tracking Can Be Found on This College Campus

NY Times, May 17, 2021

https://archive.fo/GNfJE

Breakthrough - Technologies for Pandemic Preparedness

Brookings Institution, January 25, 2022

https://www.brookings.edu/books/breakthrough/

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Chapter-Two_Breakthrough.pdf

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And it's not like she's apologetic about her father. Recent news about her and him at protests against the Iranian regime:

'Hands Are Stained With Blood': Iranians Outraged After Shah-Era Secret-Police Official Attends U.S. Rally

https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-sabeti-us-protest-savak/32271395.html

"In her tweet, Pardis Sabeti used the hashtag, "Woman, life, freedom," which has become the main slogan of Iran's antiestablishment protests, which were triggered by the September death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old who was arrested by the morality police.

But others said the 86-year-old Sabeti should be prosecuted for alleged rights abuses, including torture and the execution of political prisoners. They said Sabeti's legacy went against the demands of Iran's protest movement for greater social and political freedom.

"She has some nerves sharing a photo of Parviz Sabeti and talking about 'light and solidarity,'" London-based Iranian filmmaker Kaveh Abbasian said on Twitter. "In a free Iran, he would be put to trial."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-shah-infamous-savak-deputy-us-protest-press-review

At her TIME100 Leadership Award she got she had this to say:

https://time.com/6219137/pardis-sabeti-time100-impact-awards-women-iran/

"Sabeti, herself a refugee from Iran whose family fled the country shortly before the 1979 Iranian Revolution, said that her achievements in infectious disease research were only made possible by the “freedom” and “opportunities” she experienced growing up in the U.S."

Caring about Human Rights and Freedom in Iran. That's rich from her and her father. And tells us what those words mean to her aren't what they mean to us.

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"In her tweet, Pardis Sabeti used the hashtag, "Woman, life, freedom,"…

The only “Woman” she cares about, it would seem, is herself!

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That's the thing, these people really do think they're caring about us. That don't see themselves as evil, very few tyrannical sorts do. They believe the masses to be ignorant rubes, selfish, like small, petulant children who need the smart adult's guidance and direction to protect them from hurting themselves or others. Or like livestock. They believe they must practice "good stewardship" as their obligation that comes with being so much smarter and well-off, having blood of nobles who are born to lead, possessing the clarity of mind and stoicism, not prone to foolish sentimentality. For real, this is how most think of humanity, these words I use gleaned from their own publications and official resources.

Only a small few at the very top and center twirl long moustache's taking pleasure and sensing fulfillment when the masses suffer, pleased to have useful idiots like Sabeti in key roles intoxicated on their credentials and self-righteousness. The banality of evil is that it rarely sees itself as evil; it has good intentions.

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You’re 100% correct!

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The 2019 TIME 100 Summit. Lockdowns just need "more Disney":

https://time.com/5574168/doctors-ethical-medical-miracles-time-100-summit/

“The final panelist, Pardis Sabeti, joined the call for needing more humanity in applying scientific advances. She’s a professor in Harvard University’s Center for Systems Biology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.

Sabeti played a key role in directing the emergency response to the Ebola epidemic in western Africa that began in 2013 and culminated in 2016. She and her team sequenced samples of the Ebola virus isolated from those who were infected in order to determine, real time, how the infections were spreading. That helped public health experts decide on the most effective control strategies by tracing patients’ immediate contacts and ensuring that those at highest risk of spreading the virus were properly supported and monitored.

“The problem with the way we quarantined people during the [Ebola] outbreak early on was that it was draconian,” she said, “It made people feel isolated. I wrote a memo for people in the Pentagon and the President’s office a week into the outbreak that we need Disney involved. We need a food court, we need people who know how to help people get in and out of the [Hazmat] suits and make people who are infected know that they are secure and loved, not isolated. I believe in quarantine; it is effective. But I think our entire culture about the way we think about quarantine needs to change so we engage each other as partners."

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Ebola is a hoax--same BS as covid. Rigged test, etc. Look for Dr. Nancy Banks, author of AIDS, Opium, Diamonds and Empire, interview with Sofia Smallstorm-- in the second half she tells the truth about Ebola and how they just declared it in Africa because there was a huge resource discovery. So they declare a pandemic of Ebola, lock it down and loot the resources. Look up Jon Rappoport's archives on Ebola (nomorefakenews blog) and he will explain how they are faking it. In the Liberian Observer, they reported that they caught men putting formaldehyde in the water supply, which then made people sick, and then they called it Ebola rather than poisoning., These are all scams. Stop believing anything from corrupt govt or corporate media. Question narratives. The people in Africa were calling it fake--there's a nurse from Ghana who wrote an article posted on globalresearch.ca saying there was no Ebola and that people got sick after they came in with vaccines.

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I agree. My research leads me to same conclusion. And finding Sabeti's name at the center of Ebola and all she's been at the center of since, Gate's still promoting her work, knowing his hands in Ebola makes all kinds of sense.

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Fox. Good stuff. Sabeti indeed one of the long-armed cabal. Thanks for the detail.

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Glad to share with a wider readership. I just added more comments with more links in this thread. She's got a heckofa publicist. Maybe we've heard of them?: CIA?

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Sharing to me Twitter. Yow.

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