http://www.rferl.org/content/Iran_Election_One_Of_2009s_Most_Dangerous_Stories_For_Reporters/1917663.html December 30, 2009 An international media rights group has described Iran’s disputed presidential election as one of the most dangerous stories for journalists to cover in 2009. The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said the June election and the protests that followed “prompted a horrifying wave of repression against the media.” It also said it […]

The former president of a foundation that federal investigators allege is a front for the Iranian government pleaded guilty to obstructing a grand jury probe.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BU1TO20091231 JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A U.S.-Israeli dialogue on Iran has not reached the point of discussing a military option to thwart its nuclear ambitions, focusing instead on sanctions in 2010, Israel’s envoy to Washington said on Thursday. At the close of a year in which U.S. President Barack Obama tried and failed to talk Iran […]

The report was drawn up by a member nation of the International Atomic Energy Agency. A two-page summary of the report said the deal could be completed within weeks. It said Tehran was willing to pay $450 million for the shipment.

The European Union on Monday condemned Iran’s use of violence against citizens “seeking to exercise their freedom of expression and right to peaceful assembly.”

“I may go sometime in the future, but I have no plans as of now,” Kerry told The Cable, neither confirming or denying that he had proposed being the first senior official to publicly visit Tehran since the revolution.

National Iranian American Council (NIAC) and its president Trita Parsi arranged to receive congressional appropriated funds from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Eurasia Foundation. NIAC’s projects were approved and welcomed by the Iranian regime. The Iranian foreign ministry asked NIAC to coordinate its projects with Hamyaran. Consequently, NIAC’s main partner in Tehran was Hamyaran.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-iran14-2009dec14%2C0%2C2861832.story Washington – Western and U.N. nuclear officials are evaluating a secret Iranian technical document that appears to show that the country’s nuclear scientists are testing a key component used in the detonation of a nuclear warhead, according to intelligence officials and weapons experts familiar with the document. The document, if authenticated, could rank as […]

A few lines later in the same minutes of that meeting we read: “Alex felt it would not be deceitful to mention NIAC as being comprised of 25,000+ members when dealing with the media and other inquiries.”

Some of Trita Parsi’s communications with M. Javad Zarif in 2006-2007, Ahmadinejad’s ambassador to the United Nations