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March 14, 2010
Below: A very important video series (in Persian with English subtitles), interviews with Hassan Dai, founder of Reports on Mullahs Lobby in the U.S. and co-founder of Progressive American-Iranian Committee, both excellent sites dedicated to exposing the lobbyists of the Iranian regime at work in Washington DC.
Planet Iran will continue to bring [...]
To find out more about NIAC and their activities as the main lobby of the Iranian regime in Washington DC, please refer to the large number of articles on offer in our ‘Regime Lobbies and Promoters Outside Iran’.
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How Flynt Leverett and his wife, Hillary Mann Leverett, became leading advocates for doing business with Tehran
By Lee Smith
February 9, 2010
Source: Tablet Magazine
First in a two-part series on the dueling Iran lobbies in Washington.
Flynt Leverett is fielding questions from an audience at the New American Foundation for a panel titled “What the Iranian [...]
By Dr. Arash Irandoost
14 January, 2010
Source: Right Side News
The White House is in the process of fine tuning its Iranian Policy. On the sidelines, various groups are positioning to shape the plan. Front and center is NIAC, the National Iranian American Council, an organization that presents itself as the Iranian-American voice for Iran. On the surface, [...]
By Hassan Daioleslam
January 8, 2010
Source: American Thinker
As the Iranian uprising enters its seventh month and spurs the ruling regime’s disintegration, the Iranian community in the U.S. is witnessing a peculiar sideshow. Some of the “Iran experts” who had relentlessly preached friendship and coexistence with the Iranian regime, in a bizarre overnight reinvention of themselves, are [...]
Top left corner box: Youssef Ghassemi,
Below the box from left to right as circled: Sajjaad Mashayekhi, Mehdi Montazami, Farzad Mihani, Hojjat Vahidi
These individuals have been identified by a group of Green students affiliated with the Independent Committee Against Repression of Iranian Citizens, a Paris-based group, reside in France and have recently traveled to Iran to [...]
December 21, 2009
Source: Progressive American-Iranian Committee
Funding from NED and EF
Part 1: NIAC’s coordination with the Iranian government and Hamyaran
Summary
National Iranian American Council (NIAC) and its president Trita Parsi arranged to receive congressional appropriated funds from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Eurasia Foundation.
NIAC’s projects were approved and welcomed by the Iranian regime. The Iranian [...]
December 10, 2009
Source: Progressive American-Iran Committee
• A Congressional delegation to Iran.
Document: Congressional Delegation to Iran
From: [mailto:mshank@globalsolutions.org]
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:30 AM
To: tparsi@niacouncil.org
Subject: Congressional Delegation to Iran
Greetings, Trita -
I’ve received recommendations from Jillian Frumkin (formerly at the Wilson Center) and Lorelei Kelly that I speak with you about a project I’m working on.
I’ve been meeting [...]
December 4, 2009
Sources: National Security Law Brief & Progressive American-Iranian Committee
Friday
Dec 4, 2009
On December 2, 2009 at 6 pm Trita Parsi came to American University to speak about his stance on engagement with Iran.
Mr. Parsi, head of NIAC, stated that the policy of engagement was meant to further cooperation between the U.S. and Iran and further [...]
