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.

· Ghezelbash is manages Statoil relation with the Iranian government.  (See this email)

· Prior to joining the oil giant, Ghezelbash worked at Atieh Bahar company in Tehran. (See this email exchange between Ghezelbash and Siamak Namazi, Atieh Bahar’s director)

· Atieh Bahar helps multinational companies to do business with the Iranian regime (see this series of documents)

· Atieh Bahar and Namazi family helped Trita Parsi to create his lobby in US. Parsi was paid by Atieh Bahar. (See this series of documents)

· To get familiar with Ghezelbash, Parsi and Washington circles, see this email

· Ghezelbash’s email to Talebi: