I’m not a big fan of the American Iranian Council. I think they are a bit too much into self-promotion and don’t really reach out to the Iranian population in the US, which they claim to represent. That makes them shady in my book. But I will give them credit if the following is true. Apparently, they were influential in persuading Iran to free Ali Shakeri [1], one of the four Iranian-Americans who were imprisoned in Iran. Is this 100% true? I don’t know. But I do think Shakeri has some affiliation with AIC [2] and AIC did have a meeting with Ahmadinejad while he was in New York [3] (albeit after Shakeri was released). Nevertheless, something still sounds shady in all this.
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Links:
[1] http://www.freealishakeri.org/
[2] http://american-iranian.org/publications/articles/2007/02/iraq_in_usiranian_relations.html#more
[3] http://american-iranian.org/events/index.php