Nov 20th, 2009
Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, a Republican source says, sent written questions to Attorney General Eric Holder following yesterday’s meeting…
• Is DOJ investigating the allegations put forward in this article? If not, why?
Zakaria’s soft interview with Ahmadinejad, his friendly article about the regime and his advice to US administration to coexiste with the Mullahs should be interpreted as a campaign by special interest groups that try to prevent harsher sanctions against the Iranian regime.
Obama’s electoral calculation could prove totally wrong as the emboldened Iranian regime will certainly use its growing influence in Iraq to undermine the Arab spring and jeopardize US interests. In fact, empowering Iran in the region contradicts US policy of isolating and containing Iran and could negatively affect Obama’s image as a weak President who retreated from the Iranian challenge.Obama is completing the catastrophe in Iraq that has started with George W Bush.
Officially, Khavari has been heading the largest bank in Iran that is targeted by international sanctions. The Melli Bank along with other financial institutions are involved in regime’s terrorism and pursuit of nuclear weapon. However, Khavari’s involvement in such activities has not been a hurdle to obtain Canadian citizenship that facilitated his escape from Tehran and settling in North America.
Sep 13th, 2011
Ali Ghezelbash, the head of Governmental Relations and Public Affair in Norwegian oil giant Hydro-Statoil wrote that he and few friends brew the idea of setting an organization similar to NIAC in Europe. The new lobby group would mainly focus in London or Brussels.
U.S. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called for the Administration to directly sanction the Iranian foreign minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, as well as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran’s “Supreme Leader” after the Administration today imposed sanctions on the Syrian foreign minister and several other Syrian regime officials.
Sep 5th, 2011
This astonishing email written by Babak Talebi, NIAC’s community director shows how they planned to manipulate public opinion and US politicians in an effort to pale Ahmadinejad’s anti-Semitism and continue to present Iran as a victim of Israel.
Lobelog is a perfect example of pro-Tehran advocacy disguised as a battle against neoconservatives. According to Lobelog, the Iranian nuclear program is peaceful, its regional policies are nationalistic, its grievance against US are legitimate and the opposition groups that seek a regime change are puppets of Israel or Iranian versions of Ahmad Chalabi
Aug 31st, 2011
NIAC’s reaction to two American hikers sentence in Tehran, suggests that it acts like a PR firm for the Iranian regime, formulating and marketing the Mullahs’ hostage taking in a way that the public opinion and US politicians respond positively to their blackmail.
Aug 31st, 2011
In Berlin, every year Islamic fundamentalists, mostly connected to the Iranian regime’s embassy and Hezbollah, organize a rally to show their support of Tehran and hatred of Israel. Ironically, this year again, the non-Iranian descents, mostly Arabs and Turks who take part in this event outnumbered Iranians overwhelmingly.
Parsi presents his lobby as a crusade against Israel and AIPAC: the spoiler of Iran-US friendship, the sole force behind the sanctions against Iran, and the bullying force that dictates US policy. Iran, a victim of Israel, seeks its legitimate place in the region and …..
In February 2011, the French magazine “Vogue” ran an apologetic report on Assad’s wife and her husband titled: “A rose of desert”. A month later on March 27, in the midst of Syrian protests and its brutal repression by the regime, Hillary Clinton said on the CBS program “Face the Nation” that “members of the U.S. Congress from both parties believe Assad is “a reformer.”
Aug 1st, 2011
Far from helping the Iranian economy, the Turquoise asset is invested in real estate and Tehran stock exchange, entirely speculative and fully controlled by regime’s factions with no connection to the country’s economic reality.
The Iranian regime’s desperate hunt for raw uranium highlights the fact that its nuclear program is uniquely designed to acquire the nuclear weapon. Iran’s main response to the question of why pursuing such a costly program for a country that owns the second global reserve of oil and gas combined, has been its desire to remain “independent” in case that reserves are ended.
As the Syrian regime continues its brutal repression of the popular uprising, Dennis Kucinich, the Ohio Congressman has travelled to Syria, met with Assad and expressed some degree of sympathy for the his regime.
In an interview published today by the Iranian website “Iran Diplomacy”, the former President Rafsanjani declared that “the time has come to negotiate with US”. He recounted his presidency (1988-1997) and how he tried to reach out to the West but the Supreme Leader prevented the mush necessary rapprochement with the US “In 1998 the war with Iraq has ended and Imam (Khomeini) has passed away.
Kayvan Kaboli, 7.2.2011 After two years of sorrow and worrisome, families of Josh Fattai and Shane Bauer appealed to Ban Ki-Moon for help. CNN reported the families of hikers detained in Iran with charge of espionage met the U.N. Secretary-General and asked him to intervene just a month away to a trial which was postponed last [...]
Jul 6th, 2011
The Iranian regime’s coming parliamentary elections are nourishing factional animosities inside the regime and causing divide between the so-called leaders of the green movement and what remains of its popular base.
On July 3, the Iranians warned India to find a solution to the issue but India has offered to pay in its own currency Rupee, an offer that Iran has so far refused to accept. According to financial reports, ” Korea and China use their own currency to pay for Iranian imports.