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Trita Parsi, NIAC, and AIPAC
Spencer Ackerman and Matt Yglesias have both weighed in on my post this morning about the attacks on Trita Parsi, the founder of the National Iranian American Council. Unlike Michael Goldfarb, Jeffrey Goldberg backed off the implications of his original comments (that Parsi does "legwork for the Iranian regime") when I emailed him. But Goldberg is still embracing a double standard, Spencer says:
Goldberg has a fairly low bar for people who write that, say, AIPAC does anything untoward or is an organization that represents anything nefariously deviant from the norm in ethnic American lobbies. He insists on, shall we say, a certain precision in discourse. Yet he has absolutely no problem saying that a guy who stood out in front in the U.S. in cheering on the anti-regime protesters is soft on the regime! “I assume, though I don’t know, that Parsi doesn’t take Iranian government money or Iranian government instruction, either.” Let’s employ a thought experiment. Say, I don’t know, Steven Walt or John Mearshimer wrote that about AIPAC. Would Goldberg consider that a judicious statement or a weasel-worded slander?
The Faster Times' Dan Luban made a similar point in his original post on the Parsi attacks:
It need hardly be said that these are the same commentators who would scream anti-Semitism if anyone were to level similar allegations against Jewish-American political figures. Yet it is undeniable that Goldfarb, Goldberg, and Kramer hold positions that are far closer to the Israeli government’s than Parsi’s position is to the Iranian government’s. Would it therefore be fair to label Goldfarb as “the Israeli government’s man in Washington,” or Goldberg as someone who “does a lot of leg-work for the Israeli government?”
Yglesias says the campaign against Parsi is "soon to be joined, according to my information, by a larger set of right-wing pundits and 'reporters.'" When I spoke to Parsi, he suggested that the allegations against him are based on charges that were made by Daioleslam Seid Hassan, a man Parsi sued for defamation last year. That case is ongoing, but it would definitely be easy for someone who was interested in attacking Parsi to reprint and draw more attention to Hassan's original charges. That's fine, but anyone who writes about those charges should make sure to note that Parsi disputes the allegations and is suing Hassan for defamation.
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Is Trita Parsi Isaiah Kenen? (Founder of AIPAC).
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Lessee.
1. Isaiah Kenen, the founder of AIPAC, registered as a foreign agent of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the DOJ FARA Section.
http://www.irmep.org/ila/Kenen/IOI/KenenFA-1/default.asp
Whoops! Trita Parsi does not show up as an Iranian foreign agent!
http://www.justice.gov/criminal/fara/links/qs_shortform.html
2. Isaiah Kenen took in scads of Israeli government funding to start AIPAC, because, as he explained in his biolgraphy, no donor in the US would fund him.
http://www.irmep.org/ila/Senate/default.asp
Trita Parsi doesn't get anything from the Mullahs (and AIPACs man at Treasury, Stewart Levey, would be all over it it he did.)
3. AIPAC breaks election laws, spies, and steals government documents.
http://www.irmep.org/ila/AIPAC/PAC_Coordination/default.asp
http://www.irmep.org/ila/FTA/default.asp
http://www.irmep.org/ila/espionage/default.asp
Parsi doesn't. But AIPAC is proof that if you want to be a relevant policy maker, you do have to break US law. If you don't believe that, read "Spy Trade."
http://www.amazon.com/Spy-Trade-Israels-Undermines-Americas/dp/097644371...
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NIAC has changed from advocating engagement before the election to advocating a “tactical pause” in engagement while the dust settles now. So I don’t think your allegation (in the update) that they have failed to change their position holds up.
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Lobby or not lobby
Well let us assume that all fingers pointing at Trita Parsi, as a spy for Islamic republic, are evil ones and wrong.
As an Iranian I know the Islamic regime. They are very subversive. They plan for their moves in phases. And they are merciless when they have the overhand and they have a lot of money.
They differentiated themselves from other fractions of the opposition to the Shah by the trust they had in lobby.
The history of this goes back into the time of constitution revolution in Iran 1905 when Islamic opposition to that sought support at the Tsars court thanks to a tiny lobby they had. But they failed.
Back in the cold war days USSR backed the communist party of Iran. The Islamic movement sought back up in Egypt 1963 pointless and failed.
It was only in 1971 that they started lobby acting on US soil for real. This time a great success. Google on the name of MR Ibrahim Yazdi as the father of Islamic lobby in US.
That was the beginning of an era of clash of ambitions in my country way over the head of laymen. USSR made some influences and partly provoked the hostage taking of US personal in Tehran1980. Since then the Islamic Republic invested astronomic amount of money in regrouping and reconstruction of its lobby on US soil. In fact not just one but a meshwork of structure with different levels and missions.
The lobby they had between 1971-1980 was made of students with clear Islamic agenda. But they turned their back to the regime when they grasped the reality of the monster they helped to release from the Pandora box.
The real investment began 1996. With clear inspiration from the Israeli lobbies and encouraged by the experience of Kuwait in making US react fiercely against Saddam in gulf war. So there is a strong meshwork of lobbies working for them. You defend Trita Parsi. Cool. But do not deny the existence of such. The only real falsifier would be those who deny the whole concept