The founder of Armed Queers SLC, a pro-gun LGBTQ group being investigated by the FBI for possible ties to accused Charlie Kirk sniper Tyler Robinson, has been identified as a radical transgender political organizer with ties to communist politics.
Armed Queers SLC quietly scrubbed its online presence after Kirk was assassinated, but a law enforcement source told The Post that all open-source information on the group was downloaded and handed over to the FBI.
The cache of information includes posts from Ermiya Fanaeian, the child of Iranian immigrants, according to the source familiar with the federal investigation, whose Instagram bio calls for “Revolution + Trans liberation in our lifetime!”
She has also advocated violence to achieve the aims of LGBTQ groups, citing the Stonewall Riots as an example in a TV interview on the campus of University of Utah.
“Sometimes violence, protest, and really riots and those kinds of loud rebellions must take place for tangible change,” she said.
The feds are still deciding whether to bring charges against Robinson and working to determine whether anyone else was involved in Kirk’s killing.
However, Fanaeian and Armed Queers SLC are on investigators’ radar as the FBI has widened its probe to include a potential “extended network” that could have aided Robinson in the Sept. 10 sniper attack at Utah Valley University.
Despite her fringe leftist views, Fanaeian has time and again been welcomed by the political mainstream, and even rewarded for her advocacy.
In 2022, Fanaeian was given a “7 for 17” award for “gender equality” by the Utah Global Diplomacy, a nonprofit that worked with the State Department to “promote citizen diplomacy and international exchange in Utah.”
Fanaeian also joined then-presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) onstage during an April 2019 campaign event in Salt Lake City, an archived picture from Fanaeian’s since-deleted Facebook page shows.
A Warren spokesperson didn’t respond to a request for comment Wednesday. --->READ MORE HERE
A Utah State Department said any ties to the organisation are being "completely severed and dismantled"
THE FBI is reportedly investigating the "Armed Queers" group over the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Detectives are investigating whether suspected sniper Tyler Robinson, 22, had links to the pro-gun socialist group after their founder allegedly urged violence across Utah.
Armed Queers SLC is a group based in Salt Lake City - less than an hours drive from Utah Valley University where Kirk was killed on September 10.
It's leader has been identified as a radical transgender political organiser with ties to communist politics, according to the New York Post.
Ermiya Fanaeian, 25, is reportedly under investigation by the FBI as they continue to search for any leads related to why Robinson fired a fatal bullet at Kirk.
American politician and Air Force veteran Anna Paulina Luna confirmed the Armed Queers SLC was under FBI investigation.
The group had tried to completely scrub its online presence in the days after Kirk was assassinated, according to multiple sources.
But a law enforcement source told The Post that all open-source information from the group in recent years has been downloaded and handed over to the FBI.
Ms Fanaeian's online posts are believed to be at the heart of the investigation, according to the source.
Her Instagram bio was filled with images of her holding guns with the bio on her page reading: "Revolution + Trans liberation in our lifetime!" --->READ MORE HERE
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