Will the Real Trita Please Stand Up!

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Will the Real Trita Please Stand Up!
by Faramarz
25-Sep-2012
 

I was watching Mr. Dai’s second interview with Mr. Maibodi about his legal case with NIAC on Pars TV last night when out of nowhere Mr. Dai mentioned that Trita Parsi regularly goes on Iranian.com and make comments anonymously! I almost fell off my chair! Say what again!

Hassan Dai said that as a part of his discovery process for the lawsuit, he has been able to identify three usernames on Iranian.com that belong to Trita; Karim S (as in Karim Sadjadpour), Ramin J (as in Ramin Jahanbegloo) and Iraj Khan! Yes, the “copy and paste” Iraj Khan that spends a good amount of time on this site defending NIAC and Trita.

Well, I decided to spend a few minutes and look into this and see if it is true. I didn’t know Karim S, and I vaguely remembered one comment by Ramin J on one of my blogs, but there were plenty of commentary by Iraj Khan. So that’s where I focused.

As I read a bunch of Iraj Khan’s comments, two things stood out. First, he always copy and pasted passages either from blogs by NIACis or he did it from the NIAC site. Up to this point, I always thought that Iraj Khan was not really good at writing his own comments, but then it dawned on me that he is actually copy and pasting material that he had written himself as Trita Parsi! He probably thought that the material was so well-written and eloquent that they should be repeated time and time again!

Even the recent blog by NIAC’s Nobar Elmi appeared to be written by Trita. After all, NIAC is a small group of people that is run very tightly by their top guy so it made sense that he would write or co-write any material that went out. In a small and highly political organization like NIAC, somebody like Nobar is never given the authority to either write a blog or the authority to reply to the comments or questions.

But my second discovery was what sold me on Dai’s comment! Iraj Khan in his comments on several occasions used lofty and grandiose adjectives to praise Trita. That seemed unusual to the point that one would wonder if he is completely infatuated with him, or in fact he is just praising himself!

Well, I assembled a small sample of comments here. Take a look for yourself and see what you think.

Here is Iraj Khan commenting about Trita's interview with Shohreh Asemi.

"Mr. Trita Parsi proves once again to be an interesting person to watch. He is at ease when she asks her highly charged questions, he is at ease with her as well as with himself. "

"Mr. Trita Parsi and NIAC are as effective and as active as ever because they represent the position of the majority of Iranian Americans on the subject of Sanctions and War on Iran.”

“We Iranian Americans are lucky to have someone like him around, someone who started as an intern observing the political games being played inside the centers of power in Washington. “

Here is another set of comment by Iraj Khan on Nobar Elmi's blog.

"Meanwhile, Trita Parsi shines on international tribunes through his books, articles, interviews and blogs. He is representing the position of the vast majority of Iranian Americans on the subject of Sanctions and War on Iran.”  

"It is about the powerful Israel Lobby trying to 'Destroy' and 'Discredit' a brilliant mind and the organization that he has created with the help of others. The Lobby has failed on both points."

Here is Ramin J commenting about my blog about a panel discussion that Trita participated with a Palestinian and an Israeli.

"Trita is the calmest coolest debater ever and he completely kicked the Israeli general's ass!”

“Parsi came at him with facts and numbers, "empirical data" as he said."

You know, let me be very honest with you. Here is my problem with this whole thing. For someone who should be very busy representing Iranian-Americans, advocating “Grand Bargain”, fighting AIPAC and lobbying for the Regime, he sure is spending too much time commenting on Iranian.com!

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2. He has anti-Semitic and anti-Bahai tendencies;

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Pathetic travesty

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The first thing Parsi should do is sue his lawyer.  Didn't that schmuck tell him that he will have to disclose all his emails, his usernames on IC (and elsewhere)--and essentially the color of his underwear on the days he posts comments on IC calling everyone a Zionist---as part of the lawsuit?!  Or perhaps Parsi is the schmuck.  Perhaps the lawyer told him, but he allowed his Iranian instinct of punishing people who disagreed with him get the best of him.  

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I have heard of Shawn Amei here and I am sure that he is not anonymous8

 

 


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Parsi was paid by the CIA by his own admission. What did he use the money for??

 

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is simple...i just want to learn

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what i can do for nice zionists to give me millions$$$ for 5 best lawyers ? U know?

same thing that MEK does to git $$$ ?


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it was very clear q, no? yes, i think niac paid lawyer for trita but prob. free service.

now who waz paying for Mr. Kapshandy and the boys 4 years of service? VERY nice and expensive lawyers! top of the line. 4-5 of them! pls. post that docu!

cant answer hum?

waiting 4 it!


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Is this what you are looking for?  Try using your search engine college boy!

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safar, I have another question, who pay for lawyers?

thanx for posting documents. i saw this on the first page.

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The term, 'Internet Response Team' was obtained from Parsi's NIAC office computer with notations of silencing any opposition during a legal US Court discovery process.  We (Arash, Dai, and I) don't make this stuff up, BillyBob does and he got caught with it all in his office and had to turn it over to the court.  Get it now?

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Mola Nasserdine was Captain

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Mola Nasserdine was Captain Ayhab. He is enjoying that you think he is Parsi.


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She has a very good taste? Don't worry, Trita is woking on that :)


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No Problem Souri

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As always, you and I can't even agree if it is day or night let alone a topic like this.

And he can take my ex-girlfriend anytime he wants, but please warn him that he needs to spend a lot of money! She has a very good taste!


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Faramarz jon , narahat nashi ha.....

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I strongly feel that you have a  very personal grudge against Trita Parsi. This is out of proportion. It seems like he has stolen your gf or your job or something very personal and precious from you, in the past. This is not just about Iran and Politics. Your hate of Trita himself, could be compared to Nour/Wahid hate of the Bahais. I mean every 2 out of 3 of your comments are about or around Trita (through NIAC sometimes)

My opinion on this blog :

1) Daee said that Trita is using many different IDs to promote his ideas? So what? Who is Daee btw? What is his credibility? Daee himself may have many user ID, in this site too and a huge amount of time in his hands to be able and check all users of Trita in this site. Who cares?

2) Trita has many user IDs at iranian.com? So what? How many of the readers do have the same? Even yourself, Faramarz, you do have a few IDs. What is the fuss with this?

3) I don't care what Trita says or what he is preaching, but you can't blame him for having supposedly a multiple user IDs at IC. This is not a crime and it is allowed under the IC rules.

4) The jest of your blog (if I am not mistaken) was that : Trita Parsi is too beekar and posts too many articles and comments at IC , the whole day. Is that true? Then what is wrong with this? This is his job. He has an organization and he is working , let's say 24/7 , on promoting it, through writing articles by many ways in many sites.

Nothing wrong with this.

Unless you have a true old beef with him personally, I don't see why it should be your (or our ) business?

Be-khial baba, calm down.


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and call us everything under the sun.  We crashed their party! :-))

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I hadn't noticed it before.

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AO

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I just read the blog by Ramin J that you posted in the bottom. It reads exactly like NIAC news releases with references to people like Pipes and Ahmari, etc.

If you Google some of the names that Dai mentions as stakeholders in Atieh Company (the conduit between the lobby here and the Regime mafia) you will get blogs that were posted by the folks on this site going back to the early 2000's.

These people have been active on this site long before many of us came on board and infringed on their turf!


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He has even written articles and given them to journalist who attached their names at the bottom.  I recently made mention of this on Twitter.  After 3 1/2 years of shadowing Parsi, he is easy to spot.  Don't forget, he writes for Shawn (Siroos) Amoie too. :)

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  4. PDMI: Ahmadineajad and Company Anti-War Rally In Dallas ... Trita's "bodyguard" along with Shawn Amoie (NIAC new Ambassador). He was situated behind Trita and was staring menacingly to intimidate me when

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Soosan Khanoom Wake up!

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Wake up and smell the coffee!

Loyalty is a great attribute, as you have demonstrated here. But with blind loyalty you will only end up in a cult.


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Not Exactly RB jaan

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Look at his comment here where he's defending Wahid's anti-Baha'i rants and saying that he has "learned things" about Baha'is through Wahid's rants.  There were also other comments by him about the site being a Baha'i operation and Baha'is being pro-war.  But I couldn't find those, and I don't have the time to search it more:

//iranian.com/main/blog/maryamjoon/god-business-big-business-bahai-leaders-confirm-not-caring-about-followers


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