Frank Parlato
How a TikTok bully treid to destroy an immigrant physician’s reputation for asking a question
Dr. Poneh Rahimi came to America from Iran. She speaks Farsi. She learned English because, as she puts it, “I don’t expect people to speak Farsi to me.” She studied hard and became a medical doctor.
One day, Rahimi went to her local post office in California. She encountered two men inside. They were masked head to toe in black. They were videotaping people. They were, by her account, “fearful of being
Rahimi, when confronted by two masked men with cameras thrust in her face, asked what they were doing. She took out her phone and began recording them.
They answered in Spanish.
She asked them to speak English so she could understand what they were saying.
They continued in Spanish.
“This is America,” she said. “Speak English.”
She called the police. The officers told her these men had done this before. They had targeted police departments, sued them, and made money.
“The police dismisse
The Provocateurs
The masked men called themselves the “Long Beach Observers.” They wear masks, beanies, and sunglasses to conceal their identities while filming in public spaces—post offices, police stations, and city buildings.
Their tactics are described as “antagonistic, getting close to faces, and trying to provoke reactions for online content.” A 12-year-old boy who encountered one of them at a post office was so disturbed that his mother wrote about it online. “It unsettled my son,” she said.
Another observer explained the grift: “Just looking for people to negatively react so they can post on social media and monetize it… Without content, they can’t post anything. And without post, they don’t make money.”
Dr. Rahimi didn’t try to stop them. She asked them to speak English.
The Amplifier
Two days later, the Long Beach Observers posted their video of Rahimi online. She was labeled a “racist Karen.”
Then Danesh Noshirvan found her. Someone who knew Rahimi gave Danesh her name, her employer, and the fact that she was a physician.
The Video
Danesh Noshirvan’s video about Dr. Rahimi runs over a minute.
“She’s a gastroenterologist,” he tells his followers. “That means she stares at assholes all day. So ironic that she ended up becoming one.”
Actually, Gastroenterologists diagnose everything from liver disease to colon cancer.
Danesh invokes Nietzsche—”if you gaze at the abyss long enough, eventually it will gaze into you”—then adds, “in this context it’s actually very hilarious.”
Noshirvan, who is himself Persian, disowned Rahimi from their shared heritage. “As a Persian myself, I just want to say: we do not claim her.”
He framed her question—asking masked men to speak English as “discrimination” against Spanish speakers.
“I stand with the Spanish speakers that you’re discriminating against,” he declared.
He ended with a fart sound.
The Fake Army
Noshirvan doxxed her to his claimed two million followers.
The calls started. The hospital where she worked was flooded. Bad reviews appeared on Yelp from people in states she had never visited. The harassment continued for a week.
Dr. Rahimi believed thousands of people wanted her destroyed.
Forensic analysis of Noshirvan’s campaigns has revealed that the vast majority of his “followers” are bots. When he targets someone, the flood of calls, messages, and reviews that follows is largely auto-dialers with spoofed caller IDs, AI-generated voices, and automated systems posting templated complaints.
The calls to Dr. Rahimi’s hospital likely weren’t from outraged citizens. They were probably recordings—Noshirvan’s voice digitally altered, delivered by software, designed to create the illusion of mass public condemnation.
A federal judge in Florida, in an unrelated case, has found that Noshirvan’s communications were “intentionally made to incite followers to engage in foreseeable harassment and intimidation.” He sanctioned Danesh for $62,000 due to his deceptive behavior.
In the case of Aaron De La Torre, a Texas football coach who died by suicide ten days after Noshirvan targeted him, investigators believe most of the harassment was AI-generated.
The Reputational Stain
When Rahimi Googles her name, Noshirvan’s video is the first result. Not her medical credentials. Not her years of service.
Rahimi said:
“I have spent my entire life i
She contacted YouTube. Nothing. She contacted Google. Nothing. She contacted the FBI. Nothing. She contacted lawyers. They told her California’s anti-SLAPP statutes made the case unwinnable—and if she lost, she’d have to pay Danesh’s legal fees.
“I spent all my life being a good human being and a good citizen,” she said. “When I’m dead, I don’t want that stupid Danesh video out there saying ‘she was a racist.'”
What Danesh Hid
Here is what Noshirvan hid from his followers:
He did not show the two men in black masks. He did not show them dressed like the Grim Reaper, shoving cameras in a woman’s face. He did not show the police confirming these men were known provocateurs who had sued law enforcement for profit.
Dr. Rahimi has footage of the masked men. Danesh never showed it. If he had would have revealed the truth: she was not the aggressor.
The costumed grifters got their content. Danesh got his clicks. His bots did the rest. Dr. Rahimi got a stain on her name.
This is accountability culture. This is ThatDaneshGuy.
Next in The Danesh Chronicles: “The Week Two Women Tried to Die”—how Noshirvan dismissed two suicide attempts as hoaxes, played the race card, and took a vacation with the donations.
Danesh eggs on a “White woman” who is attacking him, “a Brown man.”
Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.
Please leave a comment: Your opinion is important to us!
Danesh is a predator who uses bots and the public to make money and destroy the lives of innocent people. The public donates to his gofundme without verifying his claims. A coach, husband, and father of four took his own life because of the harassment of Danesh and still people blindly follow.
James McGibney has a similar victim, someone should go dig into the story of what happened to Matthew Lusher.
Thank you for this article! Unbelievable that youtube allows him to continue his harassment campaigns on their platform. Perhaps after he is convicted in court they will take action and take him down finally.
Dinesh has a judgment against him, not pending criminal charges. This is a civil matter, he can be garnished, forced into a debtor’s exam, and otherwise subject to aggressive collection efforts, but that is all. People like Dinesh and James run on for years and years, they keep their crimes just belong the federal level, as well as extraditable state felonies, and count on law enforcement’s disinterest in internet drama and the jurisdiction problems to protect them.
What will finish Dinesh is the same sort of thing that finished McGibney – pick some scumbags to work with who have a top notch lawyer on their asses. Jeff Dorrell died in 2021 and McGibney still exhibits panic attack symptoms when he hears that name.
Frank, who is the biggest cuck/pussy of this bunch?
James McGibney
John Flynn
Danesh Noshirvan
Who ya got!?
You’ve put me on the spot Pilgrim. They are three woefully misguided persons. I wish they could reform. Flynn needs to at least rectify matters by working to exonerating Pigeon. Danesh needs to drop his lawsuit againts Garramone (for Garramone has the resolve to unhinge Danesh) and get out of accountability culture (cancel culture). McGibney should stop being a bully. He might yet have a chance at doing some good. But being in the bullying business and not adhering to truth is a recipe for destruction. He picked a fight with me because I defended Garramone. I had to bat him down like a fly.
Danesh and Flynn are almost certainly cooked. McGibney has a slight chance. Maybe Danesh does too with a robust apology. Who’s the biggest cuck – my vote goes to Flynn. He’s the dumbest for sure.
Yes, it is an unfair question considering how cucky all three are. Narrowing it down to the cuckiest is very difficult.
Flynn is pretty dumb….
McGibney has zero chance. The weasel is a compulsive liar who’s made money off the pain of women posted to his cheaterville website. The fact his name hasn’t passed military veterans yet with his stolen valor claims is sheer luck. Only difference between McFibney and Noshirvan is the fact Danesh has the balls to put his face on camera without lying his way onto a network television show. McGibney has a much darker private life than drug addict Noshirvan you can believe that. The fact he was posing as a pedo Hunter scooping up CP links should have everyone concerned.
We should not forget that James McGibney is a federal informant. There’s a sworn affidavit from FBI agent Walker Wicevich to that effect and it’s not difficult to find a copy. It’s surprising Frank hasn’t already done an article based on what McGibney did to Deric Lostutter, Dylan Crawford, Matthew Lusher, there are plenty of male victims, in addition to all the women that got extorted via Truth In Posting when their nudes ended up all over McGibney’s revenge porn site, Cheaterville.
Targeting a fellow Iranian. Makes you wonder if Danesh is getting his moolah from the mullahs.
How is what he does not cyber stalking or at the least he get charged with some kind of aggravated harassment that is punishable by law. What a disgrace that he has been allowed to continue.
Shame on every person in power that has not stood up against this corrupt criminal. He is a thief. He is using his platform to spread hate and destroy strangers. For what reason? Money? Sheer hate? Boredom? The man needs to go to prison and do something with his time. I am appalled reading your stories.
This is disruptive, and so unnecessary. How sick. What a sick man to torment others. He should be hung in a public square for his lies and deception. How has law enforcement, a judge or at least the social media companies not enforced some type of law to punish him for his lies, purposely meant to harm people? Why won’t someone put a stop to this? What a nuisance. I am so sorry for this doctor, her family and all of the people impacted by this man’s evil character. He should be locked up.
Danesh is a trust fund man who doesn’t need to work and has a long history as a failed comedian. He’s angry at the world .
If he has assets how has he avoided some clever victim stripping them? People with money get hauled into court in some way that avoids CDA 230/libel laws, and there’s nothing left when they emerge. Just look at what Neal Rauhauser did to James McGibney in Texas. By my count that guy sank all three TV deals McGibney had in the works, in addition to wiping out ViaView and putting an end to his paid snitching.
Dinesh might be a bit better at picking victims than McGibney was …
The pathetic gooba was just featured on the Alex Jones show. 🤣. Looks like more pain is headed his way.
Everyone knows that during the Iranian woman’s uprising in Iran that if Danesh lived there he would have been a perpetrator of violence to them. He is well known for harassing women online. He’s a creep.