Fake Ad Claiming Iran's President Endorsed Beto O'Rourke Is Pulled From Production

A neoconservative group appears to be behind a listing recruiting voice actors to pretend to be President Rouhani in an effort to portray him as backing the Texas Democrat.

Gideon Resnick
10.03.18 4:44 AM ET

A neoconservative foreign policy group appeared to try and get audio recorded claiming erroneously that Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D-TX) Senate campaign was endorsed by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

The campaign appears to have not made it into production, and maybe never will, as the site where the group posted a call for voice actors took down the solicitation on the grounds that the script was clearly false.

Before it was removed, a screenshot of that posting—which was made on the website Voicebunny in August—was provided to The Daily Beast on an anonymous tip line. According to the posting, the company producing the ad was “trying to do a voice dubbing of the Iranian President, so the voiceover needs to sound middle eastern and stern.”

The script for the spot was as follows:

“Hello, I am Hassan Rouhani, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the script read. “Today, it is my pleasure to endorse Beto O’Rourke for U.S. Senate. As a Congressman, Beto was a strong supporter of President Obama’s Iran Deal—which gave billions of dollars to my country of Iran.”

When reached for comment, a representative of Voicebunny said that the Rouhani listing had been taken down, citing the fact that it was blatantly erroneous.

“This project was a fake news project that was launched a few weeks ago,” Christina Gomez, Client Associate at Bunny Inc. informed The Daily Beast. “However, it was canceled by our team, and the voice over was not recorded.”

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