U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

On her current Middle East trip, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed worry that Iran is "moving toward" a military dictatorship, and an investigator who uncovered the "Chinagate" scandal when her husband was president now is wondering whether this careful wording is "ChinaGate, Part 2."

The original "Chinagate," documented on the Judicial Watch website, was uncovered by Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman. Technology companies allegedly made donations of millions of dollars to various Democratic Party entities, including President Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign, in return for permission to sell high-tech secrets to China.

Bernard Schwartz and his Loral Space & Communication Ltd. later allegedly "helped China to identify the cause of [a rocket failure], thereby advancing China's missile program and threatening U.S. national security," according to records.

Now Klayman, who went on to found Freedom Watch USA, is interested in some answers that Hillary Clinton could provide.

"Why is Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration refusing to challenge the radical Islamic regime in Iran over its systematic imprisonment, torture and extermination of its own people?" Klayman asked today.

"Incredibly, Secretary of State Clinton was quoted as saying, 'We see that the government of Iran, the supreme leader, the president, the parliament, is being supplanted and that Iran is moving toward a military dictatorship?'" he said.

"Mrs. Clinton obviously knows that Islamic Iranian regime is already a Hitler-like dictatorship, comprised of neo-Nazis who imprison, torture and murder anyone who opposes them. That she would say the country is only moving in that direction is not naivete," Klayman said.

"Could it be that she is on the Iranian regime's payroll, just as was the case when she orchestrated the 'Chinagate' scandal from the Clinton White House?" he questioned.

A spokeswoman at the U.S. State Department told WND there would be no comment on the issue.

But Klayman elaborated, making some of his questions specific.

"Freedom Watch intends to get to the bottom of this latest foreign policy outrage, as human rights for the Iranian people are not only involved, but U.S. national security. These fascists are intent to not only murder their own people, but taken at the word of Iranian President Ahmadinejad, will use atomic weapons to wipe Israel and other Western interests off the face of the earth," he said.

"The question then becomes why has Hillary Clinton followed a policy of appeasement and who is she working for? I intend to get to the bottom of this, since it is not disputed that the Clintons took huge amounts of Chinese cash for favors to the communist regime during their prior administration," Klayman said.

The Chinese news organ Xinhua reported Iran's Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has accused Clinton of telling lies about Iran during her trip to the Persian Gulf region.

He cited Clinton's warning that "the Revolutionary Guard … in fact, is supplanting the government of Iran."

"Nobody believes such words," Khamenei was quoted as saying.

A year ago Klayman tried unsuccessfully to convince Congress to grill Clinton about both "Chinagate" and "Filegate" while she was being nominated for secretary of state.

"Filegate" developed when President Clinton and Hillary Clinton were accused of violating the privacy rights of their perceived political enemies by wrongly accessing and misusing the FBI files of Reagan and George H.W. Bush administration staffers, among others.

"In an effort to discredit the women who charged President Clinton with sexual misconduct, personal files and papers were illegally obtained and released. The courts found, under the Privacy Act, that privacy of Linda Tripp and Kathleen Willey had been violated," said a report from Judicial Watch, which originally was involved in the case, citing just a few of the more than 900 files involved.

"As the country may remember, one of the Clintons' techniques at keeping adversaries at bay was to illegally gather confidential and classified FBI files to use against these persons if they ever challenged the Clintons' behavior in the White House," Klayman wrote.

"Caught with their hands in the proverbial 'cookie jar' when the House Government Reform Committee was investigating Travelgate, another one of the Clinton capers to hire their friends for the White House travel office … I filed a class action lawsuit in D.C. federal court against Mrs. Clinton, the FBI and others to address this violation of privacy," he wrote.

In response to Hillary Clinton's request that she be granted a summary judgment in the long-running case, Klayman responded with a request for her to be deposed on the issues at hand.

In the Travelgate scandal, the staff of the White House travel office was fired to make way for Clinton cronies.

Klayman's latest targets have included Iran's ruling regime.

He has filed a lawsuit against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over the death of a freedom protester in Iran and then followed up by serving him notice of the case during a visit to New York.

Klayman, the author of "WHORES: Why and How I Came to Fight the Establishment," has accused President Obama and other Western leaders of helping the Iranian regime try to halt dissent by opposition activists during the nation's recent celebration of the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.

Klayman said the success of the powers in Iran can be attributed to Obama "as he and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have pursued a bankrupt policy of appeasement which has not only ignored human rights, but humiliated the proud American heritage of supporting those that fight for their freedom."

Instead of aligning with the beleaguered victims of human rights violations, Klayman said, "this president and the rest of the West have prostrated themselves at the altar of these neo-Nazis and today it has become clear that these fascists have no respect for either him or American power."

Klayman's lawsuit, a $10 billion class action claim in federal court in Washington, D.C., against the Islamic regime, is for crimes against humanity. A trial is expected later this year, where victims will testify about the atrocities of the regime.

It's a class action case brought by an Iranian woman now living in Los Angeles whose brother was killed by the Muslim regime in Tehran.

According to the filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Akbar Mohammadi was a student at the University of Tehran and a critic of the Iranian regime. He was arrested during protests that followed the closure of a reformist newspaper.

"The protests were non-violent, but this did not stop the Iranian police and government agents from using violence and force to disperse and punish the protesters. … Akbar was taken into custody," the lawsuit explains.

"While in prison, Akbar was subjected to repeated bouts of torture and cruel and unusual forms of punishment, causing him to go deaf, and be in a constant state of agony. … It was recommended by doctors that he be transferred to other countries for treatment … but this request was denied."

Eventually his medications even were denied him, the claim states.

"Finally on July 31st, 2006, Akbar was murdered in Evin prison during a torture session, his long grueling prison term mercilessly ended by the regime," it states.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Akbar Mohammadi's sister, Nasrin, a plaintiff in the action, experienced the torture of her brother "through visits with him and communications back and forth."

Klayman's lawsuit against Ahmadinejad was filed under the Alien Tort Claims Act and cites allegations of supporting terror, torture, assault, battery and wrongful death.

Part of its purpose is to show President Obama he needs to speak out on behalf of freedom protesters who even in recent weeks have been challenging the Tehran regime, Klayman said.

WND reported when Klayman took on another dictator, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.

His lawsuit filed on behalf of a class of torture victims in Venezuela later was expanded to add the CITGO corporation as a defendant, a move the attorney for the plaintiffs said will provide a source of damage payments.

The case originally was filed against Chavez by Klayman seeking damages for "assault, supporting terrorism, crimes against humanity, violations of civil and human rights, torture" and other crimes.

The case was filed on behalf of a class of victims in Venezuela who allegedly were subjected to torture, threats and massive rights violations by the defendants "and their agents, and also acting in concert with, aiding, abetting, facilitating, soliciting, directing, orchestrating and conspiring with the Colombian paramilitary group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), al-Qaida and the Taliban, and other terrorist groups, nation states and their collaborators in those atrocities."