When two Iranian lobbyists outbid each other
Nov 12th, 2013
As the nuclear deal proposed by Iran was rejected by 5+1 in Geneva, a real fight rages in Washington to influence public opinion and shape the White House final decision on this issue. Trita Parsi, president of Washington based lobby organization NIAC, has written a piece in CNN and offered six reasons to approve this deal is good for everyone including Israel. Obviously, Trita Parsi, who has been supported, trusted and connected to the Iranian officials, knows the Israeli interests better than the Israeli government. The Iranian regime controlled press in Tehran calls NIAC the “Iran lobby in US.”
But the appeasement competition is tough in Washington as Parsi has been outbid by Hossein Mousavian, a former Iranian diplomat who has been recycled as a scholar at Princeton and since 2009, gets US tax money to lobby in favor of Tehran.
Mousavian has offered seven reasons to prove that everyone will benefit from the Iranian deal.
Up to the Iranian rulers to judge which lobbyist has been better in convincing (or manipulating) the public opinion.