Trita Parsi, Lobbyist for Iran?
The Atlantic
13-Nov-2009 (22 comments)

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Law enforcement experts who reviewed some of the documents... say e-mails between Mr. Parsi and Iran's ambassador to the United Nations at the time, Javad Zarif - and an internal review of the Lobbying Disclosure Act - offer evidence that the group has operated as an undeclared lobby and may be guilty of violating tax laws, the Foreign Agents Registration Act and lobbying disclosure laws....

E-mail correspondence between Mr. Parsi and Mr. Zarif show Mr. Parsi suggesting that the Iranian diplomat meet with members of Congress.

"Happy to hear that you will meet with [Rep. Wayne] Gilchrest and potentially [Rep. James] Leach. There are many more that are interested in a meeting, including many respectable Democrats," Mr. Parsi wrote in an Oct. 25, 2006, e-mail.
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf, an acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and unofficial spokesman for Iran's opposition Green Movement, told The Times, "I think Trita Parsi does not belong to the Green Movement. I feel his lobbying has secretly been more for the Islamic Republic."

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IRANdokht

Dear Farhad

by IRANdokht on

"NIAC is an IRI lobby. What else do they need to do for people to see that?"

Are you equating IRI with the people of Iran?  It sure sounds like it!!!!

What NIAC has done for "the people":

1- stood up in DC and asked US and Israel not to bomb the people of Iran

2- stood up against the sanctions

3- when Obama wanted to start the talks with A.N. they asked US not to recognize A.N. as the legitimate gov of Iran and slow down the process.

NIAC has worked in the interest of the Iranian public. What has AIPAC done for Iranians beside threatening their lives with a military attack? Why would you take their side against the people of Iran and their best interest?

IRANdokht


Farhad Kashani

NIAC is an IRI lobby

by Farhad Kashani on

Exactly, Trita Parsi and NIAC are a traitor to Iran. These are the people who apologized for IRs endless crimes against the Iranian people, who justified IRIs barbaric action in spreading fundamentalism and terrorism, and who bashed Bush, wrongly and cold heartedly, in favor of IRI and who have been legitimizing the IRI regime, an illegal and illegitimate regime.

 

NIAC is an IRI lobby. What else do they need to do for people to see that?

   


Darius Kadivar

MON Q Je comprends ...But others will ;0)))

by Darius Kadivar on

Car Ceci est un Grand Jour ...

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX9SPTSY1iU

LOL


vildemose

This is a sad day for all

by vildemose on

This is a sad day for all Iranians not just NIAC, if the allegations are true.


IRANdokht

Q, M&P and Captain

by IRANdokht on

Thank you for the information. It's sad to see some Iranians so eager to allow AIPAC to make decisions about the lives of Iranians. Tisheh be risheh zadan hamineh...

We need NIAC to stand up against them and by the looks of it, they're doing a good job otherwise these anti-Iranian groups wouldn't be so actively engaged in their smear campaign against NIAC.

IRANdokht


Q

DK: as I sympathize with your flag being drowned

by Q on

in a sea of Green at all venues, that must really hurt for you and your 5 friends.

I'm not kidding, I have stopped clicking on your stupid videos ages ago. So down't waste your worthless time.


Darius Kadivar

MON Q ... I hear Your Pain ... ;0)

by Darius Kadivar on

I sympathize with your frustration my friend ... These are Hard times

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Ejgyoc4hg&feature=related

LOL


ex programmer craig

Q

by ex programmer craig on

It doesn't matter how often you try to claim CLASSIC lobbying isn't REALLY lobbying. You can't change reality with nonsensical denials. I know that's what they teach you to do in "IRI apologist" school, but it doesn't work in the real world.


Farah Rusta

Condolences to all IRI lobbyists on this site

by Farah Rusta on

Alawi Foundation NY is accused of being a front of Iranian government. Assets being seized.

 

FR


Q

LOL!

by Q on

Craig, I realized they have relaxed military aptitude standards, but please, try and pay attention. The (baseless) accusation is that he is lobbying for the Islamic Republic.


ex programmer craig

Q

by ex programmer craig on

Setting up meetings on behalf of Republican Congressmen does not a "lobbyist" make. Trita Parsi is a former Washington aid to a US Congressman.

Excuse me? Setting up meetings between an IRI official and members of the US Congress doesn't qualify as lobbying? That claim is not even "lol" worthy. That's just pathetic and lame.


capt_ayhab

Mr.'s Q, MOSIRvaPIAZ

by capt_ayhab on

Thanks gentlemen for the links.

I was also sent this link from payvand regarding the smear tactics that been going around, which is news article that was published in Huffington Post by none other than Sam Stein, the political Editor.

//www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1141.html

//www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/03/naic-and-...

Regards

 

-YT 


Q

Yawn! Craig

by Q on

it's clear you didn't read it, nor do you want to understand it.

Setting up meetings on behalf of Republican Congressmen does not a "lobbyist" make. Trita Parsi is a former Washington aid to a US Congressman.

Once again, you've been asleep. Hassan Dai is a known clown making clownish accusations for years. I covered him over 2 years ago here. //iranian.com/Shorts/2007/june2007.html

Like I said laughable.

Good point, Craig. I'll get busy writing this where they do read as well!


ex programmer craig

Q

by ex programmer craig on

Did you even read the article!? Or were you too busy pointing fingers at everyone else? Laughs are on you bud, because you can do a google search and find dozens of articles that have been written on this topic the last couple days. That's what I did, because until I read this post I hadn't heard about this brewing scandal with NIAC. You aren't going to be able to fix this by trying to assassinate the character of everyone who is making the allegations... there's only one Q and there are a LOT of journalists who are all over this story. And I bet some of em don't even read Iranian.com anyway :o


Q

Craig, thanks again for the laughs "clear evidence"! LOL

by Q on

why do you always have to be so funny?


ex programmer craig

Is it true?

by ex programmer craig on

Trita Parsi is not an Ametican citizen? if so, how can he claim to be advocating the interests of Iranian-Americans? He isn't an Iranian-American himself.


ex programmer craig

MOOSIRvaPIAZ & Q

by ex programmer craig on

So, when confronted with what seems to be clear evidence NIAC is acting a lobby for the IRI, you react by pointing fingers at communists and Israel.... thereby changing the subject. What a novel approach :p


Q

oh my god!

by Q on

Thanks Moosir for this valuable link. Dai is just the pawn of the neoconservatives. He clearly sells "attack on Clinton or Obama", as he says in the email.

I wonder if Ken Timmerman knows about Seid Hassad Daioleslam's own ties to terrorits, including two siblings who are known Mojahed activists.

Considering the loose and laughable connections Dai has been drawing, this should be taken seriously.
//iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=3014


MOOSIRvaPIAZ

Q

by MOOSIRvaPIAZ on

The neocons were actually the ones who gave Dai and his MEK gang wings. //www.alternet.org/world/65956/

Of course being loyal to only Israel, they chose to ignore their past terrorist record vis-a-vis America. 

Interesting leaked email from them here:

 

Previously unreported documents provided by NIAC to The Cable show that Daioleslam was working with neoconservative author Ken Timmerman as early as 2008 and that their moves on Parsi were part of a larger effort to thwart Obama's Iran policy.

"I strongly believe that Trita Parsi is the weakest part of the Iranian web because he is related to Siamak Namazi and Bob Ney," Daioleslam
wrote in one e-mail dated April 2, 2008, "I believe that destroying him
will be the start of attacking the whole web. This is an integral part
of any attack on Clinton or Obama."

Tim Kapshandy,
a lawyer for Sidley Austin LLP, came to represent Daioleslam in 2009.
Upon seeing the e-mails about Parsi and Namazi, he accidentally sent a
note to both of them. The note read, "Send it to [Washington Times
reporter Eli] Lake right away!"

 

//thecable.foreignpolicy.com/

 


benross

The important issue is not

by benross on

The important issue is not being against sanctions. It's lobbing on behalf of IRI. This will remove any legitimacy of the organization to speak on behalf of Iranian people.

NIAC may be an IRI version of AIPAC. Iranians should do without either of them.


Fred

Cheerleaders

by Fred on

The fact that known Islamists/Anti-Semites and their likeminded lefty allies are among ardent supporters and cheerleaders of the NIAC lobby and its, by charter, irreplaceable lifetime president says a lot about the lobby.

And the fact that it seems the vehemently anti-CIA triumvirate is ok with NIAC lobby president, according to the article, working, in the form of delivering lecture,  with CIA also says a lot.

There are other issues with NIAC lobby and its lifetime president and chief lobbyist which will be forthcoming.

 

Of course the fact that Makhmalbaf, the overseas representative of one of the “green movement” leaders calling NIAC lobby a lobby does not help the NIAC lobby either.  

 


Q

haha! looks like Daioleslam is getting desperate

by Q on

Wow, a coordinated multi-front attack on Trita Parsi by the fascist wing of the Republican/Likud parties. I guess NIAC has hit a nerve after all. Dai must be losing the case, to leak all his so-called case like a bache ghondaghi. When are the neocons learn not to trust idiots like Dai and Chalabi?

Even the best "evidence" in these rags would be laughed out of court. "Arranging meetings" that the US congressmen asked for is hardly "lobbying". These fascists just want to kill any chance of peace, and unfortunately "meetings" lesson the chance of war.