Iranian lobby in America .. Growing sophistication and service mullahs' regime

Iranian lobby in America .. Growing sophistication and service mullahs' regime

By Alaa Ibrahim Habib *

Proceeded Iran since the mid-nineties to form a pressure group (lobby) in Washington to promote the project of a comprehensive settlement and understanding with them and prevent the issuance of additional sanctions against the Iranian regime because of differences over its nuclear program and support for terrorism and regional interventions.
Iranian lobby, which has been operating for Rafsanjani's growing role in the era of Khatami eased somewhat in the Ahmadinejad era, but he regained his role again after the arrival of spiritual power over a year ago in June 2013 AD, which stressed during his visit to New York last year to strengthen the role of the Iranian lobby in the US United, and demanded in a speech in front of a number of members of the Iranian community supporters of the Iranian regime to play a national role and form a powerful lobby groups to influence American public opinion in favor of Iran.
The present Iranian lobby heavily in research and media institutions centers in addition to decision-making positions in the United States of America, acting through non-governmental institutions, political and civic organizations and commercial companies have common economic interests with the Iranian regime, and does not represent the lobby any official bodies in Tehran but it works according to groups organizations and groups operating under the anti-war movements and demanding a settlement with Iran under the banner of peace and stability in the Middle East, human rights organizations addresses.
This study focuses on the history of the migration of Iranians to America and how the emergence of the lobby there is a service of the Iranian regime and highlighted his twin-engine, in addition to leading institutions and organizations that are working through it.
Immigration to America:
Occurred two waves of immigration from Iran to the United States before and after the revolution of 1979 m, where the first wave began in the mid-fifties and early sixties of the last century and included university students and wealthy families who were looking for the best opportunity in the United States.
According to statistics it before the revolution there were about seventy thousand Iranian students studying in the United States, has opted mostly stay on the back, but the relationship has been good with their countries of origin, especially that some of them wanted to retrieve some property and land left by their parents behind in Iran.
While emphasizing researcher Iranian writer who lives in Los Angeles (Babkivreughe) that a year before the arrival of the revolution to peak until the present time, there was a second wave of immigration, where refugees politicians form and asked for asylum and those who have chosen self-exile in light of unrest in Iran In the eighties, the second wave of immigration. In addition to the young people who want to escape from the military service of the Iraqi - Iranian war, young women and families who have traveled for educational purposes, political and women.
The number of Iranians are currently residing in the United States more than three million people, of whom at least 50% were born, and up the Iranians residing in the United States, the wealth to $ 400 billion. In a report published scientific information specialists bank in the immigration office in the United States, the Iranians residing in the United States founded the 280 large company, they also contribute to the more than 400 other company window in various fields, as the proportion of holding up a bachelor's degree from the Iranians residing in the United States 26% to occupy it ranked first among immigrants to the United States for higher education and above. And 43% of them working in professional and managerial different locations, and works 25% in the technical and operational sectors and 10% of them are employed in the service sector.
The first generation of Iranians are far from political action and busy pursuing a living, but the children of the second generation who got premium multitude of education in the United States, no longer have the old immigrant knots, and tried to improve their livelihoods and to play a role in the political life surrounding them.
Has emerged as an important group of them, especially in the academic field, including Dr. Ramadan, and the governor of victory, and Trita Parsi, and Ray Takeyh and others. In the media field Cristian safety Port emerged, anchorwoman in «CNN» station, and other media personalities. In the area of ​​trade succeeded them Shahram Dabiri, developer of a number of video games, Google's former chief deputy, Salar Kamangar, and others. The first generation remained focused on traditional trade in carpets, real estate and other trade goods.
The new generation has tried most of them young men to build a federal organization that combines the diaspora community and raise their demands and their voice in Washington, DC, and in 1997 was the establishment of the American Iranian Council, led by Hooshang Amirahmadi, who played a big role in easing sanctions against Iran and circumvent it continued its work of this Council until replaced «National Council for the Iranians in America», which is considered the most important and most powerful Iranian lobby in the United States, which is known as the «Nayak» and led by Trita Parsi.
On the other hand, some experts believe that the honest Harrazaa, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister of the former (1997-2003), who lived in the United States between 1989 to 1996, is the designer of this lobby and the proponents of this view depends on a very exciting newspaper interview (Shargh) in May 28 2006 where Harrazaa talked about ways Iran to counter US policies and also ways to confront the Israeli lobby in the United States, also stressed that this should lobby remains a non-governmental, and that the Iranian government that is supported and promoted by and then it can be relied upon.
Trita Parsi leader lobby
Iranian in Washington:
Trita Parsi scholar Iranian holds Swedish citizenship and lives in Washington, who is president of the American-Iranian National Council and author of the famous «treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States, and has another book entitled« one roll of the dice »In addition to numerous articles, interviews, TV, He succeeded in closer to the decision-makers in the White House and the State Department and enjoyed some American media such as Persian-speaking radio «Voice of America» and has laid off most of its staff and appointed a new crew under his supervision and organization headed.
Study Saudi researcher who specializes in Iranian affairs Mohammed bin Saqr peaceful that Parsi is personal most explicitly in Washington, which calls for participation and to rely on an understanding with the regime in Tehran has been confirmed, also calls for makers of Western and American policy specifically to accommodate the clerical regime in Tehran or the so-called engagement Hakim, rather than confront issues such as the nuclear program and a charge of supporting terrorist groups and files of human rights.
US courts to prove the Iranian lobby in Tehran link:
There is no doubt that the efforts of Parsi has formed a shock of some American media personalities of Iranian origin and led to the emergence of differences and reached some of them to the corridors of the US courts, and perhaps the most prominent advocate filed by Trita Parsi against US journalist of Iranian origin Hassan unnecessary, which was written in 2008 , an article that described the Parsi prominent lobby pro-Tehran's mullahs in the United States figures, and Parsi does not care about the human rights of the oppressed there, as it is in constant contact with a number of Iranian officials at home and abroad.
This charge called Parsi and the organization headed by to bring a case against the need that, claiming that the latter tarnished his reputation and the organization and the trial lasted for more than three years between the charges against the two parties and how huge of documents, even a judge in federal court in Washington, DC «John Bates» rule The final issue in favor of Hassan unnecessary.
This trial has led to the disclosure of e-mails showed that the Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, who was working as always envoy for his country in the United Nations in New York, met with Parsi, for the first time in March 2006, and Zarif passed to Parsi document «grand bargain» proposed by the Iranians to Americans that During the Iraq war in 2003, and rejected by Washington as Parsi messages that showed the meetings between members of Congress from both parties with Zarif format.
Iranian lobby in the White House:
The researcher in Iranian affairs professor Mr. flower that recognition from the US administration big influence, which has become the Iranian lobby in America practiced on the American arena, the White House organized in 2003 «dialogue» Americans for Iranians spanned the entire day, hosted a large number of leaders of organizations table US-Iranian, and eminent personalities of Iranian-Americans from university professors and research centers .... etc.
Which defended the Iranian lobby for Tehran's controversial policies and its efforts to build a nuclear bomb and raised to temptation in the Middle East and its support for terrorism and its threat to world peace.
Iranian intelligence has a skyscraper in the heart of New York City:
Newspaper «The Christian Science Monitor» stressed, citing US federal investigators in November 2009 that Iran's permanent UN mission in New York does not supervise the «Iranian lobby» in Washington, but also oversees the work of several institutions.
It Iranian lobby institutions, «Benad loft» Foundation and is headquartered on Fifth Avenue in New York, which was founded by the Shah of Iran in 1973 in New York under Benad Pahlavi name, changed its name after it was seized by the mullahs in Iran after the revolution to Benad Mstdafan then to Benad loft. Reports indicate that the management board in Iran but Javad Zarif, controls most of the decisions in New York.
In February 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 organization that repeats on its website that its primary mission is «explain Islamic culture, according to the Persian perspective, and Persian language, literature and civilization».
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.
Despite denials «loft Foundation» any link with Tehran, «FBI» (FBI) has revealed that the President of the Foundation, Farshid Jahidi has in 2008 destroyed documents proving that the institution had paid part of the money to Bank Melli in Tehran, which is owned by the The Iranian government and that part of the funds may be 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 is still operating, but with caution.
The impact of decisions on the Iranian lobby in the United States:
Columnist Abdul Malik bin Ahmed Al-Sheikh said the Iranian lobby in the United States plays a major role in influencing the political decision on US relations - Iran to hurt the interest of the regime in Tehran through marketed to the mullahs' regime in the West in general and in the United States on In particular, at the expense of the Arab parties affected by the expansionist ambitions of Iran and interference in the internal affairs of a kingdom of Bahrain, Lebanon, Yemen and even the occupation of territories such as the UAE, Syria and Iraq.
He cites Al Sheikh book «the devil you know ... to deal with Iran as a superpower» to Robert Baer, ​​a former member of the CIA (CIA), work in many Middle Eastern countries, such as Iran, India, and has written extensively about the Middle East known prejudice The Arabs, particularly Gulf Arab states and their peoples, and the message that the writer wanted to deliver in his book, in one line, is: One of America's political and strategic interest to be cooperation with Iran to become a policeman Gulf next!
Al-Sheikh and adds that this output intellectual ugly tip of the iceberg, which is doing the Iranian lobby in some research centers in American universities as well as thinking stores (Think Tanks) of vigorous role to influence US policy toward Iran through endoscopy next to its positive role in the region to protect the interests Bank and maintaining the flow of oil from the Gulf to the West.
John Kerry's daughter married
Iranian -omraki:
Iranian researcher who lives in Los Angeles confirmed that the door Forooghi Vanessa Bradford Kerry, the youngest daughter of US Secretary of State John Kerry from his first wife, married an Iranian physician US. Forooghi He pointed out that although the image of John Kerry as he sat on the dining decorated Bzenat Persian table in celebration of the Iranian New Year (Nowruz) may become unpleasant for many Iranians inside the United States or in Iran's image, they raise some criticism and doubts about Kerry's position on the issue Iran, as well as the Syrian issue.
In a study prepared by the Saudi researcher Mohammed bin Saqr peaceful said that the festival of Nowruz symbolizes the basis of the conflict between good and evil, and attributed the beginning of Nowruz to prehistoric times, and specifically to the Achaemenid era, while others he attributes to the Persian King Jamshid bin Tahmuras a figure set by the Persians against the prophet God Solomon peace be upon him and see that he has the same abilities that God gave to the Prophet Suleiman, such as control of the jinn, and so on. It was a festival of Nowruz is the official holiday of the Sasanian empire that fell with the Islamic conquest, and he celebrated the feast of all or at least most of the people who were under the rule of the Persian Empire, regardless of religion, which is embraced by those peoples estimate were celebrations continue for ten days and nights. One of the myths that the Iranians believe in their belief that the souls of their deceased relatives come back from heaven to earth and even meet with their families and loved ones during the holiday Nowruz, so tables are equipped with all the goodies for those happy lives through their presence on the ground.
Iranian lobby in Washington for the mullahs' regime Service:
Dr Saleh Abdulrahman inhibitor that members of the Iranian-American National Council are keen to attend most of the hearing in the Senate hearings on US policy toward Iran, and they claim their success in carrying the 131 members of Congress to sign a letter addressed to President Obama asking him to open direct diplomatic dialogue with Iran.
Mana believes that the National Council more successful in influencing the policies of the executive branch influence in the Congress policies, Israeli lobby in Congress, much stronger than the power of the Iranian lobby.
Speaking of the Israeli lobby should be noted that Parsi has written a book which praises Israel, and says he has no animosity Iranian them, and that America's interest to form a tripartite alliance with Israel and Iran, but it seems that after confirmed Tehran that Israel will not allow her possession a nuclear weapon, I decided to try the coup of Israelis authentication to confront them, especially in the capital of 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 that caused the defeat of the Israelis, in alliance with other internal currents, and understanding of America's accurate and follow-up, an activity that seems to be an Iranian boat to bear fruit, especially with the repetition of the US president that the 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.
The presence of a number of members or sympathizers of the Iranian lobby in favor Obama may affect the future policies of the United States towards Iran, it is known that both Dr. Nasr, and Dr. Ray Takeyh, and his wife, Dr. Susan Maloney, a researcher at «Brookings» Research Foundation, write many books and reports of growing Iranian influence in the Levant, and that such a buildup may necessitate the United States access to live with a nuclear Iran formula.
This offering, which serves the Iranian authorities as he sees interested in Iranian affairs calls for the so-called big deal between the United States and Iran, as if the can for two Anabban each other hostility in several decades that Athola overnight to find a common understanding formula based on the deep roots of distrust between them.
And sees a large number of experts that the Iranian lobby in the United States will not succeed in the short term direction or even a serious impact on US foreign policy, but in the medium or long term can play this lobby in the mitigation of the gap between the political leaders of the two countries.
So you should pay attention to the Iranian pressure group weak now could affect the extent of a decade or two on the US policy in the Arab region and the Gulf region.

* Academic researcher in the affairs
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