Obama’s electoral calculation could prove totally wrong as the emboldened Iranian regime will certainly use its growing influence in Iraq to undermine the Arab spring and jeopardize US interests. In fact, empowering Iran in the region contradicts US policy of isolating and containing Iran and could negatively affect Obama’s image as a weak President who retreated from the Iranian challenge.Obama is completing the catastrophe in Iraq that has started with George W Bush.

Officially, Khavari has been heading the largest bank in Iran that is targeted by international sanctions. The Melli Bank along with other financial institutions are involved in regime’s terrorism and pursuit of nuclear weapon. However, Khavari’s involvement in such activities has not been a hurdle to obtain Canadian citizenship that facilitated his escape from Tehran and settling in North America.

Ali Ghezelbash, the head of Governmental Relations and Public Affair in Norwegian oil giant Hydro-Statoil wrote that he and few friends brew the idea of setting an organization similar to NIAC in Europe. The new lobby group would mainly focus in London or Brussels.

U.S. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called for the Administration to directly sanction the Iranian foreign minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, as well as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran’s “Supreme Leader” after the Administration today imposed sanctions on the Syrian foreign minister and several other Syrian regime officials.

This astonishing email written by Babak Talebi, NIAC’s community director shows how they planned to manipulate public opinion and US politicians in an effort to pale Ahmadinejad’s anti-Semitism and continue to present Iran as a victim of Israel.

Lobelog is a perfect example of pro-Tehran advocacy disguised as a battle against neoconservatives. According to Lobelog, the Iranian nuclear program is peaceful, its regional policies are nationalistic, its grievance against US are legitimate and the opposition groups that seek a regime change are puppets of Israel or Iranian versions of Ahmad Chalabi

NIAC’s reaction to two American hikers sentence in Tehran, suggests that it acts like a PR firm for the Iranian regime, formulating and marketing the Mullahs’ hostage taking in a way that the public opinion and US politicians respond positively to their blackmail.

In Berlin, every year Islamic fundamentalists, mostly connected to the Iranian regime’s embassy and Hezbollah, organize a rally to show their support of Tehran and hatred of Israel. Ironically, this year again, the non-Iranian descents, mostly Arabs and Turks who take part in this event outnumbered Iranians overwhelmingly.

Parsi presents his lobby as a crusade against Israel and AIPAC: the spoiler of Iran-US friendship, the sole force behind the sanctions against Iran, and the bullying force that dictates US policy. Iran, a victim of Israel, seeks its legitimate place in the region and …..

In February 2011, the French magazine “Vogue” ran an apologetic report on Assad’s wife and her husband titled: “A rose of desert”. A month later on March 27, in the midst of Syrian protests and its brutal repression by the regime, Hillary Clinton said on the CBS program “Face the Nation” that “members of the U.S. Congress from both parties believe Assad is “a reformer.”