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Iranian filmmaker and unofficial spokesman for Iran’s opposition Green Movement Mohsen Makhmalbaf, told The Washington Times, “I think Trita Parsi does not belong to the Green Movement. I feel his lobbying has secretly been more for the Islamic Republic.”

"If the Islamic Republic could hire a lobbying firm, I couldn’t imagine it doing a better job than NIAC.”

“You cannot find any difference between [NIAC’s] statements and the Iranian regime’s statements. Either officially or unofficially they are following the path of the regime,” explained Amir Fakhravar, a once-jailed Iranian dissident who heads the Iranian Freedom Institute from the United States.

Democracy Movement of Iran conducted an online survey of Iranians, Iranian-Americans, and Americans in general on NIAC and its activities. The representative sample of 1,851 individuals with Internet access, 18 years of age or older found the following:

Ninety-nine percent of respondents said NIAC did not represent their interests;

Ninety-nine percent believed NIAC was a lobbyist for the Islamic Republic;

Ninety percent were aware of the defamation lawsuit against Hassan Dai;

Eighty-two percent had read NIAC’s internal documents revealed as a result of the lawsuit;

Ninety-nine percent believed that NIAC has defrauded the federal government;

Eighty-two percent said that they were never asked for their opinion by NIAC;

One percent believed that NIAC was a human rights organization but ninety-nine percent believed that NIAC worked as a lobby for the Islamic Revolutionary Republic of Iran.

https://www.camera.org/article/camera-special-report-the-national-iranian-american-council-tehran-s-best-friend-in-washington/

-NIAC has an intimate and longstanding links to the Iranian regime.

Meet NIAC, Iran's Lobby in America - The Epoch Times

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May 30, 2019

https://www.theepochtimes.com/meet-niac-irans-lobby-in-america_2899555.html

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So the leader of U.S. embassy attack in Iraq was a guest in the Obama White House?

President Obama’s been kind of quiet these days, last tweeting his Christmas greetings and best wishes for the health of Rep. John Lewis.

So has former National Security Advisor Susan Rice, former UN ambassador Samantha Power, former Secretaries of State John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, and former CIA Director John Brennan.

Only lowly Ben Rhodes, the creative-writing major promoted to Deputy National Security Advisor for “communications” and his sidekick Colin Kahl, Joe Biden’s NSC man, have been Twitter-talkative.

The Obama bigfoots have good reason to lay low. The U.S. embassy in Iraq was attacked by one of the people they’d tried to coddle earlier, back in 2011, Hadi Farhan al-Amiri, a guy so bad even a former FBI director, Louis Freeh, spoke out against letting the guy in at the time. It’s not like this guy pretended to be a friend and then went bad on them. They knew. And they let him in, giving him lots of clout back home from which he was able to draw new terrorist resources, since terrorism was what he did.

According to the 2011 report in the Washington Times:

Embassy was unavailable to elaborate on Mr. al-Amiri’s role in the White House visit.

Louis J. Freeh, who served as FBI director in the Clinton administration and the early months of the George W. Bush administration, said it was shocking that Mr. al-Maliki would include Mr. al-Amiri in his visit to Washington.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has been involved in “countless acts of terrorism, which are acts of war against the United States,” Mr. Freeh said in an interview.

Mr. al-Amiri served as a commander of the Revolutionary Guard’s Badr Corps, a battalion that was tasked with operations in Iraq. He remained active in the Badr Corps during the late 1980s and 1990s, when he was working on resistance efforts against Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq.

The FBI linked the Revolutionary Guard to the attack on the Khobar Towers in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, on June 25, 1996. Nineteen U.S. servicemen were killed by a bomb blast at the towers, which were housing American military personnel.

“As a senior leader, [Mr. al-Amiri] would have to have known about Khobar, and he would know Gen. [Ahmad] Sherifi, who was the IRGC general that conducted the operation,” Mr. Freeh said.

He added that the “FBI would love to sit down and talk to him, show him photographs and ask him questions” about the fugitives named in the Khobar Towers indictment.

The Obamatons ignored him.

Al-Amiri got invited the White House as the Iraqi government’s “transport minister” after he fought on the side of Iran in the horrendous Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, continued work with the Iran Revolutionary Guards, got more practice with terrorism in Kuwait in 2008, according to this credible-looking Middle Eastern source on Twitter:

…and still managed to cadge a White House invitation, undoubtedly to browbeat the White House into caving in on some factor, or else to convince them that there was no winning the Iraq war, the Iranians there were too powerful. Whatever the purpose of this visit, it sure as heck didn’t deserve the White House treatment, it’s something world leaders normally have to earn to get. That this terrorist got an invitation so cheaply could only have sent the message to his ilk that the U.S. was weak. And now we have the embassy attack.

So now we have Rhodes desperately trying to spin the matter, studiously avoiding the topic of that al-Amiri invitation, something Rhodes himself probably extended to the terrorist with full knowledge of the kind of things al-Amiri had made a career of. Rhodes, if you read his memoirs, and I did, had a taste for making personal contact with the world’s gamiest players, blissfully unaware of how naive and arrogant he came off in his written account. I’d bet money Rhodes was the one who invited al-Amiri in to take a look around the Oval office and have a seat on the Blue Room furniture.

He’s since responded with a violent terror attack against the U.S. coordinated with full blessing of Iran’s mullahs. Proud of yourselves, Obamatons? Someone on the nets ought to be asking them about it.

https://columnist.media/so-the-leader-of-u-s-embassy-attack-in-iraq-was-a-guest-in-the-obama-white-house/?fbclid=IwAR295szeubyWR1b7e-OAmTL4xF-4aDhL2FumN0LN7oDZrGHkPSWaWKW3xqo

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Other court documents also reveal that on Dec. 28, 2006, Parsi gave an interview to the Iranian government-owned newspaper, Aftab. The interview featured a picture of Parsi and was titled “Iranian Lobby Becomes Active.”

NIAC met with more than 50 members of Congress alone. That’s a lot of congressional contact for a non-lobbying organization. Despite this, tax documents show that in 2006, 2007, and 2008 NIAC reported zero lobbying activity. Documents released as part of a court case (Trita Parsi and the National Iranian American Council v. Daioleslam Seid Hassan), including e-mails to congressional staff and talking points, seem to illustrate a concerted effort to lobby against U.S. sanctions in regard to its purported nuclear weapons program. Other documents show detailed notes taken from meeting with various members of Congress and their staffs, including then Senators Joseph Biden (D-Del.) and Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and others. These interviews include how “friendly to NIAC’s cause” NIAC staff perceived certain members to be.

Parsi participated as a co-panelist at a forum of Iran scholars hosted by U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) on May 28, 2008 in Minneapolis. According to Ellison, the group’s purpose was to “promote dialogue on pressing issues.” Ellison has consistently voted against U.S. economic and other sanctions on Iran for its suspected nuclear weapons program.

J Street, along with NIAC, Open Society, Campaign for a New American Policy on Iran, and others formed a coalition to oppose U.S.-led sanctions against Iran.

Iranian filmmaker and unofficial spokesman for Iran’s opposition Green Movement Mohsen Makhmalbaf, told The Washington Times, “I think Trita Parsi does not belong to the Green Movement. I feel his lobbying has secretly been more for the Islamic Republic.”

"If the Islamic Republic could hire a lobbying firm, I couldn’t imagine it doing a better job than NIAC.”

“You cannot find any difference between [NIAC’s] statements and the Iranian regime’s statements. Either officially or unofficially they are following the path of the regime,” explained Amir Fakhravar, a once-jailed Iranian dissident who heads the Iranian Freedom Institute from the United States.

Democracy Movement of Iran conducted an online survey of Iranians, Iranian-Americans, and Americans in general on NIAC and its activities. The representative sample of 1,851 individuals with Internet access, 18 years of age or older found the following:

Ninety-nine percent believed NIAC was a lobbyist for the Islamic Republic;