Iran’s Spymaster: Lobbying Group for the Islamic Republic Is Active In DC to Legitimize Its Nuclear Program

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This could explain Obama’s disastrous Iran deal. There needs to be a thorough investigation of Iran’s influence in Washington: this is yet another swamp that needs to be drained. But have the swamp-drainers lost their nerve and their will to continue?

“Iran’s Spymaster Claims Pro-Regime Agents Operating in D.C., London, Canada,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, March 23, 2017:

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Iran maintains a network of spies and lobbyists who clandestinely push the Islamic regime’s agenda in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere, according to the head of Iran’s ministry of intelligence, who touted the pro-Iran network’s ability to spread its ideology to the West.

Mahmoud Alavi, Iran’s intelligence minister, in recent remarks independently translated by the Washington Free Beacon, bragged about the Islamic Republic’s ability to operate an unnamed “lobby group” in D.C. that helps to push the regime’s hardline agenda.

Alavi disclosed that Iranians with dual citizenship in the United States, Canada, and England, remain devoted to the “Islamic revolution” and are working to promote this agenda in their adopted homelands.

In D.C., Alavi claimed, a “lobby group for the Islamic Republic of Iran” is working to bolster the regime’s international status and help legitimize its nuclear endeavors.

“They have a lobby group for the Islamic Republic of Iran which does not cost us money,” Alavi said, without naming the specific organization. “We should not accuse them and say things that discourage them about the ancestral homeland, this is not good, and losing this capital is not good for the regime.”

Iranian dual nationals living in the West remain devoted to the Islamic Republic, he added.

“It is wrong to say that all dual nationals are traitors, spies, or foreign agents; many of dual nationals love Iran, are a capital for Iran,” Alavi said. “Many who live in Canada, London, or the United States [are devoted] to the [Islamic] revolution and the supreme leader … In those places some attend religious ceremonies. [Those people] love the [Islamic] Revolution.”

While the Iranian official did not name the lobby group in question, the Free Beacon has reported during the past several months that dissident organizations are pushing for a formal investigation into the National Iranian American Council, or NIAC, which has long fought against charges that it lobbies on the regime’s behalf.

A group of nearly 100 prominent Iranian dissidents working to undermine the regime petitioned Congress in February to investigate NIAC’s ties to the Iranian regime and determine if it is actively helping to push a pro-mullah agenda.

“We write to request a congressional hearing on the efforts of Tehran’s theocratic regime to influence U.S. policy and public diplomacy toward Iran,” the dissidents wrote to Sen. Bob Corker (R., Tenn.) and Rep. Ed Royce (R., Calif.), the heads of Congress’ foreign affair committees, according to copies of the letter first reported by the Free Beacon.

NIAC’s actions in favor of the Iran nuclear deal and increased diplomacy with Tehran also raised concerns in January, when the Free Beacon first reported that two high-level Iranian government backers, including a former Islamic Republic official and another accused of lobbying on Tehran’s behalf, had been hosted at the Obama White House for more than 30 meetings with top officials.

The meetings came at key points in the Obama administration’s outreach to Iran and efforts to push the nuclear deal….

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Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Sooner or later iran is going to have nuclear capabilities, when they use them, retaliation should eradicate the entire country from the map.

unboundried
unboundried
6 years ago

Kind of like AIPAC being active in DC to legitimize the nuclear weapons technology and weapons grade uranium that Israel STOLE from us.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

Five will get you ten that the agents of Iran are not operating in the shadows as hinted but “hiding in plain sight”. My chief suspect is commiecrat mouthpiece Joe Trippi, who appears quite frequently on TV news shows particularly during an election season.

iprazhm
iprazhm
6 years ago

This is unconscionable.

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