Alaarani..rjal Tehran in Washington

«Lobby» Alaarani..rjal Tehran in Washington

Grand Bargain

Contrary to the image that the Iranian regime is trying to be provided about himself and his positions, does not exceed the slogan «Marco American Bar», ie, Death to America, being a talk verbally, while in fact Tehran away from the ideological and track operational policy aimed at Washington authentication and alliance with them, even undermine Iran In recognition of American dominance in the Middle East, and a mandate to manage this area, especially at a time when there is a feeling of fatigue popular American foreign policy.

Picture of the cover of the magazine (the magazine) number last April

Because Tehran is not ideological but pragmatic, has worked since the mid-nineties to form a pressure group, customary to call «lobby», in the US capital, and funding from Tehran and direct supervision of Iran's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, Iran succeeded in creating this lobby claimed his officials, Iranian Atsdarham - Swedish on the Zoroastrian doctrine resides in Washington, boasted of Pthakaiqam results, Belhakhm defeats mightiest American lobbies, and on top of that the pro-Israel.

Experts or supporters of Iran's system?

In my office in Washington, got a call from «Woodrow Wilson Center» prestigious to attend a seminar entitled «Iran in the next five years: change or more of the same?» The Iranian issue hot, and seminars of this kind often attracts a crowd of concerned US officials and experts and the media.
I opened the invitation, if I know me and one of the speakers, an American journalist who writes about the Middle East with some objectivity. The other speakers, were not Americans, which prompted me to investigate them. One Iranian, and named Bijan Khajahpour, runs «consulting company», it is assumed that the Austria-based, but I read his name for some time as a lecturer at seminars dedicated to Iran here in the US capital.
Then examine the fast, I found that the alleged consulting firm, «coming International», a subsidiary of «coming group» in Tehran, which presents itself, on its website, specializes in providing «assistance and advice for foreign companies to enter and work successfully in the Iranian market as an institution».

The second speaker French researcher named Bernard Horcard, led research with him to an interview with «euronews» channel in April (last April), in which he said: «34 years ago, and we say every day that the Islamic Republic nearing collapse, but they still exist, a more stable system of government in the Middle East, we see that, especially after the Arab Spring, a country that can move forward ». Then calls Horcard to allow Iran to continue enriching uranium, and to reach an agreement with them lead to the lifting of sanctions by, and the normalization of relations with the West, especially the United States.
The third speaker, Roberto Toscano, Italian and previously served as ambassador of his country to Iran between the years 2003 and 2008. In an article in «Huffington Post», Toscano reduced cheers Iranians «Death to America», wrote that it is better for American policies that do not pay attention to the anti-system of the United States speech, and move forward in opening it. Otherwise, the only alternative is war, and when That, unite Iranians behind their leadership, and become rallying cries of death to America meaningful.

Toscano and seal it when «Iranians say Americans (especially the National Iranian American Council): No Tdharbwa Iran. They do not say so, because they are soft on the system, but because they know that any attack will revive the system popularly, so let me emphasize that the Iranians Kkarhin image of America is the wrong image ».
The director of the symposium, as stated in the call, they are Iranian - American Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East program at the Institute, and the system is arrested her in 2007 for a period of four months in solitary confinement in Evin, then released, and since that day, and Esfandiari insists on the need to America's openness to Iran, and the lifting of sanctions on Tehran, and allow it to proceed with its nuclear program. For this reason, Esfandiari live seminars at the institute, which is managed, and sign the petition to lift the sanctions.

Next change

So, even without my going to a seminar on Iran, I could predict in advance Bmejryatea; a group of Iranians, some of whom have acquired US citizenship or European, and European supporters of openness unconditional on Iran, they speak for two hours about the next change with the election of Hassan Rohani president Iran and the opportunity to seize, and financial returns for the opening to Tehran, and warn of the consequences of obstruction of America to reach an agreement, even if balked Iran and stuck nuclear on its own terms, arguing that it does not deal inevitably means war, a word not liking Americans after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Trita Parsi, president of the National Council of Iran - US

It seems that Toscano, who takes it upon himself to puff Iran, warning of war, and the glorification of the Iranian - American National Council, the publication of his article with the support of the Council itself, which is headed by Iranian - Swedish resident in Washington, Trita Parsi, who writes regularly on this website.

Parsi friend and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, since more than a decade, when the latter was always working in his country's envoy to the United Nations in New York. In the middle of the last decade, accused the Iranian opposition Hassan unnecessary Islam Parsi work for the benefit of the system, what was the Parsi, however, filed a slander against unnecessary Islam, ordered the court to open the e-mail to Parsi, to prove that he was in touch Bzerev, and that the meetings between members of the format in Congress from both parties with the Iranian official.

US courts to prove the Iranian lobby in Tehran link

E-mails that have been disclosed showed that Zarif and Parsi met for the first time in March 2006, and Zarif passed to Parsi document «grand bargain» proposed by the Iranians on the Americans during the Iraq war in 2003, and rejected by Washington.
Court documents show that Tehran has provided the document to the Swiss ambassador in Iran, which represents US interests, which passed to the Americans.
Later, the American Flynt Leverett claimed that he and his wife Tzlma document Iranians also Mrraha to the US administration. Leverett and the author of a book about the life of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and enjoy a good relationship with Damascus and Tehran, says in an interview with writer Lee Smith It's one of the few Americans who visit Tehran periodically and without Visa. Smith believes that Leverett believes that in the event of a US agreement - an Iranian, it would be the first to benefit financially from the coming decades to limit Smith called the Leverett title «man of Iran in Washington.»

In Parsi e-mails revealed by the court between him and Zarif about coordinating conference on Capitol Hill in collaboration with the «New America Foundation», as part of a project launched by the Parsi in 2006, entitled «negotiate with Iran Project». And attached to his e-Parsi to the Iranian Mission estimated the cost of six months of work for this project, which includes a call 10 to 15 experts in Iranian affairs from around the world, at a cost of one hundred thousand dollars.
In September 2012, the court ruled against Parsi, and fined the amount of 185 thousand Goulard compensation for unnecessary Islam.

Iranian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York does not supervise the «Iranian lobby» in Washington, but was also oversees the work of the so-called «loft Foundation», as quoted by the newspaper «The Christian Science Monitor» investigators federal Americans in November (November 2009).
And «loft Foundation» created by the Shah of Iran in 1973 under the name «Pahlavi Foundation», In 1979, its name turned into a vulnerable institution, and later became known as the «loft Foundation». In February of 2012, the New York Police declassified documents her back to May 2006, and where that «Iranian intelligence services operating within the United States across multiple institutions, including the (upper) Foundation», a charge denied by the institution reiterates its position that the basic mission is to «explain Islamic culture and Persian language, literature and civilization.» In other pages on its website, the organization believes that the goal of supporting «Shiite culture».

Enterprise owns a skyscraper in the heart of New York City back by huge rents used to finance more than 30 educational institutions across the United States. Experts believe that Tehran is using these funds to reward academics who write what it pleases, and educational institutions that issued studies serve the interests of Tehran.

However, despite denials «loft Foundation» any link with Tehran, revealed «FBI» (FBI) that the Foundation Chairman Farshid Jahidi made in 2008, the destruction of documents proving that the institution had paid part of the money to Bank Melli in Tehran, and owned of the Iranian government, and that part of the money may have been used to finance the Iranian nuclear program.
In April 2010, a federal court in New York ruled on Jahidi three months in prison on charges of obstructing the investigation and obstruction of justice, and the reservation was a large part of the funds and property of the institution, which continues to operate, but with caution.

Iranian lobby activities in Washington to bear fruit

In December (December), and before the days of the Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Kuwait, experts and officials Arabs hold foreigners annually dialogue in Manama directed US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel renewed during the presence of his country's pledge to the security of the Gulf in the face of any Iranian threat, but pledges US Minister were not innocent, but came as a reassurance at a time when his government is negotiating with Iran, privately and publicly. With Hegel, attended by a number of advisers, current and former, from the likes of Andrew Baraželjta, a site manager «Al Monitor» where she works, a researcher at «Atlantic Council» Barbara Slavin, who is visiting Iran regularly, and often organizes seminars, like Esfandiari, hosts the Faces Tehran lobby in Washington, including Parsi and Khajahpour, combining studies in conjunction with claims that sanctions on Tehran only hurt the Iranians without their government, which requires a judgment filed.

Slavin and publicly writes that the Washington search for the actual interests, and that is through the replacement of its alliance with Riyadh alliance with Tehran, while Baraželjta wrote that America mandated Iran to resolve the crisis of Syria, without conditions. The site is funded by the US out of a Syrian Jamal Daniel, who amassed a fortune from his work in the oil sector, which many believe that he hoped that the reward him with Iran oil contracts in case it was the lifting of sanctions.
In Manama, where he attended Baraželjta, crisis almost toppled the summit Gulf, when a reporter asks a question on the Omani Foreign Minister Yousuf bin Alawi about the possibility of the Gulf Union, Laird latter that possibility is unlikely, and that Oman withdraw from the Board in the event of voting was it broke summit in Kuwait. Here Kuwaiti diplomatic scrambled to save the summit, which was on its way for hosting, as shown later in the question and answer format obtained was intended to embarrass the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
In Washington, the diverse activities of the Iranian lobby, which calls for all of them to drop the sanctions unconditionally from Iran and in alliance with them, even if it required a waiver in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and throughout the region continued. And the activities of the Iranian lobby includes seminars, and the issuance of studies, conferences, and published articles in a variety of American newspapers, and establish friendships with American researchers and experts, as well as with officials in the government and Congress, and with their assistants.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif

At a time when tried pro-Israel lobby, known as the «AIPAC», urged his supporters in Congress to pass a law imposing new sanctions on Iran effect late, a year after the adoption, and in the case of international negotiations with Iran fail, which produced an interim agreement in November last in Geneva, put Iranian lobby court plan to address the new sanctions effort.
But Israel lobby has almost absolute control of the House of Representatives in Congress, which is controlled by the majority of the Republican Party, which passed a copy of the required on Iran sanctions law. But the Senate is controlled by the Democratic Party, which in spite of friendship that unite Israel lobby, it is not possible for him to oppose the decisions of the country's president, who belongs to the same party. Thus, the collection of the Israel lobby 59 votes out of 60 are required to enforce the recognition of the majority in the Council Leader Harry Reid, and Obama himself. In the absence of the only sound is required, the faltering effort to impose any new sanctions against Iran in the event of international nuclear negotiations broke down with it, or did not reach a conclusion.
But Iranian lobby did not stand by Obama, who was in the midst of legislative confrontation with Israel's friends, but claimed the Iranians to rally popular support for President against new sanctions. In the midst of activity, the Iranians found allies succeeded in recruiting support for negotiations with Iran, any negotiations, and regardless of the outcome. Those allies, who are fierce political force to be reckoned with, understanding of anti-war groups in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Of course not result in a new batch of sanctions on Iran to go to war with the ruling, but the Iranians have succeeded in marketing the idea, which claimed repeated by White House officials and their allies in Congress. Also embraced the idea of ​​«negotiations or war» anti-war coalition, which would tighten the sails of Obama gave him popular support in the face of the majority of the Congress on the subject of Iran.

The decline of the Israeli lobby

«Americans for the majority of the worries and concerns that prevent them from pursuing foreign policy and its details, which gives a small group, but the ability to dominate in these subjects perseverance», writes Parsi what appears to be conceived of how the lobbies in the US capital. Parsi article published on the site «Huffington Post» entitled «illusion that AIPAC invincible», following the retreat of the Israeli lobby trying to pass new sanctions on Iran.

Parsi adds that «AIPAC» faced a series of defeats, the first after the United States adopted a military strike against Syria in the wake of the chemical attack by Bashar al-Assad's forces against civilians in the outskirts of Damascus in August. The second defeat came in the confrontation over Iran. In encounters, Parsi believes that the anti-war mood is the one who has proven its effectiveness, and the second time, was based on the White House to this mood, which strongly activates the Parsi Iranian lobby, to thwart «AIPAC» any new sanctions on Iran.
However, the confrontation is not over, according to Parsi, which confirms that the next round of the parties select one of them as the Israel lobby did not specify the other, coming in a matter of months, as the Israel lobby, according to Iranian activist, Svrd interest to blow the final agreement being negotiated between Iran and the world.
Of course Parsi does not mention that the author of a book that praises Israel, and says he does not with Iranian hostility, though America's interest is to enter an alliance equilateral triangle, combines all of America, Israel and Iran. But it seems that after Tehran confirmed that Israel would not allow her to possession of a nuclear weapon, I decided to try the coup of Israelis authentication to confront them, especially in the capital of the global decision-Washington.

According to recent confrontations, it seems that Parsi is right in that the Israel lobby is not infallible for the loss, and it can lobby young - like the Iranian lobby founded by Parsi and led in Washington for nearly a decade - to inflict defeat the Israelis, in alliance with other internal currents, and image understanding American accurately and follow-up, an activity that seems to be an Iranian boat yield, especially with the chanting of US President that change is coming, and that Washington is inevitable in the way of reconciliation and friendship with Tehran, and that America's allies in the region to adapt to change.

Published in conjunction with the newspaper (Middle East)