Jason Jorjani

Jason Reza Jorjani (born February 21, 1981) is an American philosopher and writer. He was a lecturer at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, former editor-in-chief of the publishing company Arktos Media, and co-founder of the AltRight Corporation with Richard Spencer. and a mother who comes from a working-class family of "northern European heritage", more specifically Irish and Scandinavian.

Career While serving as a full-time faculty member at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Jorjani taught courses on science, technology, and society (STS), the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, and the history of Iran. In 2016, Jorjani became editor of alt-right publisher Arktos Media. who presented himself to Jorjani under the false identity "Erik Hellberg", in which Jorjani predicted a future where concentration camps would return to Europe and Adolf Hitler, Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander the Great would appear on European currency by 2050.

In March 2019, U.S. District Judge William Martini ruled that Jorjani does not have a case for defamation, stating: "The general allegation is implausible because the facts alleged do not support an inference that defendants knew the recording was edited to misconstrue plaintiff's actual views."

Association with Richard Spencer Jorjani had met Richard Spencer at a conference from the white supremacist think tank National Policy Institute, at which both of them spoke. At the conference, attendees gave Nazi salutes as Spencer led the crowd in shouting "Heil Trump!" Jorjani subsequently claimed that he did not intend to speak at the conference and that he rejected the white nationalist ideology Spencer began integrating into their organization. a 501(c)(3) cultural organization. Jorjani ultimately took a negative view of the AltRight Corporation, referring to it as a "miscarriage" and "total failure".

Involvement in politics Jellyfish Among the things that Jorjani would tell Benjamin Teitelbaum, one thing that he placed a lot of emphasis on was his contact with a man in London (who Jorjani refused to name), who was involved variously in neo-Nazism, Satanism, and occultism, had a network connected to wealthy Muslims and possibly members of the British government, and was emailing Jorjani over the particular interest he had in his book Prometheus and Atlas. Shortly thereafter, this same man began giving Jorjani advice in the direction of ultimately overthrowing the Iranian government alongside those in Turkey, Venezuela, and China by using the services of a private intelligence firm by the name of Jellyfish, founded by veterans of the private security firm Blackwater. Among the other goals of Jellyfish discusses with Jorjani included the plan of creating what they called "micro-cities" which would function as very large and sophisticated refugee camps that would have been built in North Africa to deal with the refugee crisis.

Within this setup, the person of contact for Jorjani specifically was a man by the name of Michael Bagley, who was a former aide for the Democratic senator Patty Murray, and based on the advice of the unnamed Londoner Jorjani and Richard Spencer would go out to meet with Bagley for the first time in September 2016. During their meeting Bagley claimed to Jorjani that Jellyfish maintained a secret radio station in Croatia, which was within range of Iran and could be used to broadcast anti-government messages. Furthermore, in order for the plan to work, Donald Trump had to win the election in order for the anti-government activities to get financial sponsorship, after which Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner were integral to this. Particularly, in the case of Bannon, since he was known to be a reader of Arktos Media, a publication that the unnamed man in London advised Jorjani to become its editor-in-chief, and since Jorjani was supposed to be a man of direct contact with, alongside Jellyfish. At some point Jorjani would meet the unnamed man in London, when he himself was there for a visit with exiled Iranian nationalist groups, sometime shortly after the election of Trump in 2016. On January 2, 2017, Jorjani received an email from Bagley saying that the US Government funding would be received by February 1, after Trump's inauguration. On March 8, 2017, Jorjani would write an email to Bagley in which he stated he wanted to get rid of Richard Spencer as the leader of the AltRight Corporation. At some point Bagley stopped answering Jorjani's emails, but he received a document from the unnamed Londoner describing how Jellyfish intended to infiltrate the Venezuelan oil. In between January 2 and March 8, as part of the plan Jellyfish claimed to Jorjani that they made contacts with the right people within the Trump Administration, which is reflected in an article put out by the pro-Putin Israeli commentator Avigdor Eskin, who claimed in article published by RIA Novosti on February 2 that Jellyfish had made contact with Michael Flynn. Ultimately, nothing is understood to have been achieved in Jorjani's relationship with Jellyfish, since Michael Bagley was arrested by the FBI and Steve Bannon reportedly had never heard of him.

Furthermore, according to Teitelbaum, the unnamed Londoner who he speaks of is connected to the Sufi traditionalist Martin Lings and has many ties to wealthy Middle Easterners including the former Emir of Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and the Iranian nationalist Darius Guppy, who is known for illegally raising money and is himself a friend of Boris Johnson.

According to Benjamin Teitelbaum, Jorjani presented him a copy of Prometheus and Atlas to give to Steve Bannon as a gift.

Views

Jorjani's ideas have been described by journalist Olivia Goldhill as influenced by Dark Enlightenment philosophy, particularly that of Nick Land. In a 2023 Break the Rules livestream, Jorjani denied being influenced by Land.

The Prometheist Manifesto In "The Prometheist Manifesto", Jorjani criticised the modern concept of God as a "jealous and tyrannically wrathful God-Father, archetypally identical to Zeus". Instead, Jorjani supported the idea of the myth of Prometheus as the creator of man and likened the fire that he stole from Olympus as a symbol of the power of technology and science to free humanity from scarcity and ignorance.

Views on white nationalism Speaking at a conference organized by Richard Spencer in 2016, Jorjani repeated the white genocide conspiracy theory when speaking of the collapse of the Sasanian Empire; he described it as the "first and greatest white genocide." Jorjani has written in support of eugenics and has claimed that Iran cannot culturally, technologically, and scientifically advance unless it restores its "pre-Arab and pre-Mongol genetic character".

He has, however, stated that he deliberately infiltrated the Alt-Right movement at the behest of individuals who were very close to the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign to steer it away from Spencer-style White Nationalism.

In 2017, Jorjani stated that he is not a white nationalist or racist.

Iran and geopolitics Jorjani has said that he was involved in an attempt to build a new Persian Empire, which he claims was led by an organisation known as the "Iranian Renaissance Organization". With regard to the project, Jorjani claimed that the new Iran would be in a struggle against a nascent Islamic Caliphate. Specifically, he has said about this project that it was intended:

Islam

According to Jorjani, everything supposedly achieved in the Islamic Golden Age was misappropriated from ancient Iranian culture. Furthermore, he is critical of the entirety of the Abrahamic religions, emphasizing that the modern "Judeo-Christian" West only produces materialism and meaningless technology while Islam has been a source of tyranny and white genocide.

Furthermore, Jorjani is critical of Aleksandr Dugin for his support for Islam and Islamic Republic of Iran as part of his goal to spread Traditionalism.

Despite his criticisms of Islam, he has stated that the origin of Islam is Iranian, specifically the following:

When Jorjani speaks of the angel Gabriel in the quote above, he is specifically referring to the idea promulgated by extremist Shi'i sects that Gabriel was in fact Salman the Persian, a Persian merchant who had initially converted to Islam and traded extensively in the Arabian Peninsula. The reasons Jorjani believes this are because of his connections to the wife of Muhammad, Khadija bint Khuwaylid (who he claims was a Jew), which led to Salman befriending Muhammad. This led to rumors that he influenced ideas appearing in the Quran into Muhammad's head. As for Salman's motives, Jorjani insists that Salman was working for the House of Karen as a military operative for several reasons. Firstly, Salman was knowledgeable in how to use military equipment and proficient in several languages. Secondly, Salman helped bring Muhammad to victory at the Battle of the Trench and the Battle of Badr. Thirdly, at these battles, the Muslims wore green, and the crescent in Islam is a symbol derived from the House of Karen. Lastly, since the Arabs overthrew the Sasanian dynasty, the historical rivals of the Parthians, to which the House of Karen belonged, all combined with the greater purpose of inoculating Iranians to any form of religious totalitarianism by engineering an extreme version of it in the form of Islam.

Belief in psychical phenomena Jorjani has expressed the belief that "psychical phenomena as key to developing a postmodern or archaeofuturist science that would deconstruct the distinction between science and spirituality".

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