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@DNI_Ratcliffe “told CBS News that there was foreign election interference by China, #Iran, and Russia in November of this year [2020].”
All Americans should be informed about how Iran & its lobby group @NIACouncil are meddling in the U.S.
Why is this important?#Iran has been increasingly aiming to interfere in U.S. elections specifically through NIAC.DNI John Ratcliffe had previously shed light on this vital issue.
In this thread, I will be explaining how Iran:-has infiltrated Congressional offices through its lobbyists-uses its clout to provide Tehranâs regime access to U.S. citizensâ information-spreads pro-regime misinformation & undermines the U.S. democratic process
NIAC is a lobby group in the U.S. pushing Iranâs talking points.
@tparsi is the official founder of NIAC in the U.S.
Parsi has a history of exchanging emails with Zarif.
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1)@CNN & @MSNBC eagerly provide airtime to #Iran lobbyist @tparsi.
Parsi has very close ties to Iranâs senior officials.
Remember the 2015 nuclear talks?This thread focuses on Iranâs DC-based lobby group @NIACouncil, founded by Parsi.
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â Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) November 30, 2020
Here we see @NegarMortazavi & @YasmineTaeb, the ladies leading this rally. They are both former NIAC members & thus linked to Iran’s regime.
Here is proof that Mortazavi & Taeb are former members of Iran’s lobby arm NIAC.
Listen to Mortazavi in a TV interview boast about having close ties with Team Biden.
Listen to how Mortazavi justifies the crimes of #Iran‘s regime. This is the hallmark of Iran’s network of apologists & lobbyists in the West.
An important piece on NIAC by @michaeldjohnsjr.”The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) frequently echoes Tehranâs rhetoric in redirecting blame at the U.S. for Iranian aggression and malfeasance.”
NIAC was born from a 1999 white paper written by @tparsi based on holding âseminars in lobbying for Iranian-American youth & intern opportunities in Washington D.C.â & reducing âthe taboo of working for a new approach on Iran.â
iraniansforum.com/Document/iranaâŠ
Last December, [NIAC] outrageously alleged that the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and U.S. forces elsewhere in Iraq were not the fault of the regime-backed militias that carried out the attacks, but rather of President Trump.
niacouncil.org/news/memo-backâŠ
2019âNIAC president @jabdi echoed Iranâs conspiracy theory that Iranâs attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Omanâcorroborated by the US, UK, Germany & regional alliesâwere false-flag operations âorchestratedâ by the Trump admin to wage war on Iran.
How Trita Parsi & NIAC Used the White House to Advance Iranâs Agendaâ⊠organizing the grassroots and pressure US lawmakers to pose a more Iran friendly position.â
Former Iranian Official, Pro-Tehran Lobbyist Hosted at Obama White House Dozens of TimesâTrita Parsi, a pro-Iran advocate long accused of hiding his ties to the Iranian government, met with Obama administration officials some 33 timesâŠâ
@hmousavian, a former Iranian official, also enjoyed unprecedented access to the Obama/Biden White House. Mousavian, dubbed as âPrincetonâs Iranian Agent of Influence,â is known for his role in Iranâs assassinations abroad.
While @Princeton University says Mousavian had a âdistinguished career,â it is worth noting that he was Iranâs ambassador in Germany overlooking the September 1992 Mykonos restaurant killing of four Iranian Kurdish dissidents.
Iran’s lobbyists found their way into the Obama White House.@saharnow of NIAC worked on the Iran nuclear deal & had very close access to Obama himself.
âNIACâs most accomplished alum is Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, who is now National Security Council director for Iran in the Obama admin & the top US official for Iran policy, bringing together various departments working on US strategy toward [Iran].â
thedailybeast.com/the-shady-famiâŠ
“A conservative website had published an article depicting Nowrouzzadeh as a Barack Obama loyalist who had âburrowed into the governmentâ under Trump and even had ties to the hated Iranian regime itself. ”
NIAC has also established ties with senior figures in Washington.
Jan 8, 2020âAlong with Reps. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) and Barbara Lee (D., Calif.), Sanders and Warren are scheduled to speak Wednesday evening with members of NIAC.â
Iran apologists/lobbyists have established ties with Sen. Sanders.
Iran lobbyists have established ties with Sen. Warren.
Warren voiced gratitude for an endorsement from NIAC member @rezaaslan.Aslan has close relations with Iranâs regime & also makes disgusting remarks on Twitter.
A look at some of Aslanâs latest tweets.
NIAC has strong ties with Sen. Chris Murphy who had a secret meeting with Iranian FM Zarif during the Munich Security Conference back in February.
âMurphy is a frequent speaker at [NIAC], a lobbying group with alleged links to the Islamic Republic of Iran,â via The Federalist.
NIAC members have also gained foothold in the House of Representatives.@mahyarsorour is the Senior Legislative Assistant to Rep. @IlhanMN.Sorour was a candidate for NIAC Action’s leadership board back in July 2019.
@ethanazad is a staff member of @RepRashida who handles a “broad legislative portfolio, helping Tlaibâs office on foreign affairs⊠and government oversight.”
@samira_says was (and may once again be) a permanent Legislative Assistant in the Office of then @RepBarbaraLee. That could have potentially given her (and the regime in Iran) access to U.S. citizens’ data.
A reminder of Iranâs threats:
Iran’s hackers suspected of emailing threatening messages to U.S. voters recently & spreading false information about compromised election systems ran a disinformation campaign last year targeting the Middle East.
Damning evidence: Airfare provided by NIAC for two Iran intel agents, Massoud Khodabandeh & his wife Ann Singleton, to come to the U.S. in 2008.Library of Congress issued a Pentagon-requested report describing the two as recruited by Iran’s intel (MOIS) in the 1990s.
NIAC founder Trita Parsi is now the VP of @QuincyInst, a Washington, D.C., think tank funded by George Soros that has promoted anti-Semitic voices and parroted pro-Iran talking points.
Iran took advantage of Obama’s appeasement & had its network of apologists/lobbyists push its talking points freely. They should not be allowed to continue.
For starters, the U.S. should pursue an investigation into Tehranâs lobby arm NIAC.
The State Department recently called on U.S. think tanks & other policy groups to publicly disclose how they are funded â or risk forfeiting access to top department brass.
NIAC should be demanded to disclose their funding.
Why is all this important?
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said recently that Iran is working to undermine the integrity of the 2020 election.
“… we have already seen Iran sending spoofed emails to intimidate voters, incite social unrest & damage President Trump. You may have seen some reporting on this in the last 24 hours or you may have even been one of the recipients of those emails.”
Thanks for taking the time to read this thread.
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