A far-left activist who previously helped organize youth support for Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and volunteered for Sen. Elizabeth Warren\u2019s, D-Mass, presidential campaign appeared in an Iranian state media interview praising the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calling him the “greatest anti-imperialist leader” of her lifetime.<\/p>\n
Calla Walsh, who describes herself as a journalist from the U.S. working in Lebanon, made the remarks in an interview aired by Iranian state media PressTV during the outlet’s coverage of Khamenei\u2019s funeral. Walsh was previously profiled by Boston Magazine as a young organizer who helped form Students for Markey and “played a pivotal role” in Sen. Markey\u2019s 2020 primary win over then-Rep. Joe Kennedy III, after first volunteering for Sen. Warren\u2019s<\/a> presidential campaign.<\/p>\n “He was a leader to all people in the world who struggle against imperialism, against arrogance, against Zionism, against genocide,” Walsh said in the interview.<\/a> “To me, he was the greatest anti-imperialist leader to live during my lifetime.”<\/p>\n During Khamenei\u2019s 37 years in power, multiple reports<\/a> cited his regime killing thousands of citizens, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran.<\/p>\n IRANIANS CHANT \u2018DEATH TO AMERICA\u2019 AMID FUNERAL FOR LATE AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Her comments came with an Iranian flag seen in the backdrop.<\/p>\n Public profiles have traced Walsh\u2019s political work through several Massachusetts progressive campaigns. Boston Magazine reported that Walsh later served as communications director for Jordan Meehan, a left-wing Massachusetts state House candidate, and was organizing with Act on Mass while doing digital media work for Boston City Councilor Julia Mejia\u2019s re-election campaign in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n The conservative Capital Research Center’s InfluenceWatch, citing Walsh\u2019s LinkedIn, also reported that Walsh was a regional organizer and strategist for Act on Mass from November 2020 to September 2021 and worked as digital director for Mejia in 2021.<\/p>\n Walsh has been tied to Michelle Wu\u2019s Boston mayoral bid<\/a> as well. A New York Times profile identified Walsh as part of the “Markeyverse” network and showed her canvassing for then-Boston mayoral candidate Wu.<\/p>\n SECRET SIGNAL CHATS REVEAL HOW ANTI-ICE AGITATORS COORDINATED NEWARK RIOTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Meanwhile, Walsh has previously appeared in Fox News Digital reporting on far-left protest networks. <\/a>In January, Fox News Digital reported that Walsh shared video of unrest in Minneapolis after the fatal Border Patrol shooting of Alex Pretti and bragged that protesters had trapped “ICE Gestapo” at the scene.<\/p>\n The same report noted that Walsh had previously been filmed in Iran shouting, “Death to America! Death to Israel!”<\/p>\n The interview from Iran’s state media about the Supreme Leader’s funeral was published under the headline, “Ayatollah Khamenei\u2019s message of resistance was truly universal: American activist.” Press TV summarized Walsh\u2019s remarks as arguing that Khamenei\u2019s legacy extended beyond Iran and the Muslim world and that the massive funeral crowds represented “not only grief but a march of victory.”<\/p>\n Walsh also framed the recent conflict as a defeat for the United States, saying, “It\u2019s still fair to say that the U.S. has been more humiliated than it has ever been before in its history and has signed away huge concessions to Iran.”<\/p>\n Fox News Digital reached out to Walsh, as well as to the high-profile Democrats she has worked or campaigned for, but did not receive a response in time for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A far-left activist who previously helped organize youth support for Sen. 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