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.
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
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
The I.A.E.A.’s last report, issued in February, listed seven outstanding questions about work Iran apparently conducted on warhead design.