<\/a>Iranian American Forum, 5 Jan. 2013<\/p>\n

The Library of Congress has released a\u00a0repor<\/span><\/span>t<\/span><\/a><\/span>prepared by Pentagon on Iranian intelligence ministry, their techniques in recruiting agents in Europe and the US and in infiltrating US academic institutions and Iranian-American organizations. The 64 page unclassified report published by Washington\u00a0press<\/a> and Farsi\u00a0media<\/a> names two individuals as the agents of Iranian secret services. Both persons have collaborated with National Iranian American Council (NIA<\/span>C<\/span><\/a>) led by Trita Parsi, a Washington based advocacy group viewed by many Iranians to be the Mullahs’ lobby in US. The government press in Tehran calls NIAC the “Iran lobby in U<\/span>S<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

The Pentagon\u00a0report<\/a> names London based Massoud Khodabandeh and his wife Anne Singleton as the recruits of Iranian intelligence services. (pages 26-27). NIAC’s internal\u00a0documents<\/span><\/a> obtained during a defamationlawsui<\/span>t<\/a>, (that NIAC lost) show close collaboration between NIAC and these two individuals. In 2008, NIAC\u00a0organize<\/span>d<\/a> a Congressional briefing in Washington for these Iranian agents and\u00a0paid<\/span><\/a> their travel fare but the US Homeland Security intervened and stopped them from boarding the London flight to Washington.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the report identifies several websites such as\u00a0Iran Interlink<\/span><\/a> as being operated by the Iranian intelligence agency. (p. 41) NIAC also\u00a0collaborate<\/span>d<\/a> with H. Sobhani, editor of Iran Interlink. Sobhani wrote\u00a0an articl<\/span>e<\/a> and labeled Daioleslam a terrorist. Then, Trita Parsi and NIAC used this article in a large scale\u00a0campaig<\/span>n<\/a> against Daioleslam to discredit him and eventually use it in the defamation lawsuit. Parsi further instructed numerous\u00a0friendly website<\/span>s<\/a> to use Sobhani’s article and smear Daioleslam.<\/p>\n

This new credible revelation by the Pentagon and the Library of Congress about NIAC’s collaborators raises serious questions about US National Security as NIAC maintains intimate relations with US government. For example, in a series of troubling emails the State Department officials coordinated a\u00a0joint lobb<\/span>y<\/a> in Congress to raise funds for an initiative that would allegedly facilitate better relation between Iran and the US.<\/p>\n

In another\u00a0series of emails<\/span><\/a>, the US Consular official based in Dubai asked NIAC to help the Consulate in its outreach program towards Iranians. The American official suggests funding NIAC through a detour in order for the funds to be untraceable.<\/p>\n

In a third example, complicity between the State Department and NIAC is beyond comprehension.\u00a0\u00a0 In a series of emails, a State official asked Trita Parsi about the Iranian regime’s motivations in foreign policy and how best the US can approach the regime. Parsi burst into an\u00a0emotional defens<\/span>e<\/a> of Tehran and presented the regime as a victim of US belligerent policies. Strangely enough, the State Department official\u00a0agreed<\/a> with Parsi.<\/p>\n

NIAC is the administration’s main\u00a0interlocuto<\/span>r <\/a>on Iran issues, US embassies continue to\u00a0invite<\/span> <\/a>Parsi to speak at events organized and\u00a0sponsore<\/span>d <\/a>by their embassy, he is invited to brief the State Department officials, teach classes for them (paid for) and most prominent State’s officials\u00a0speak<\/span><\/a> at NIAC’s event.<\/p>\n

US government may think that they have found a back alley doorway to the Iranian regime.\u00a0 In reality, it could be Tehran\u2019s Ayatollahs who have found a back alley door to the State Department!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iranian American Forum, 5 Jan. 2013
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