“The guy is basically an ideologue, and he is pushing a very focused agenda, but the agenda has to do with representing a perspective of a certain wing of the Iranian government,” tabletmag.com/sections/news/…
“Why anyone would make him the executive vice president of a supposedly American foreign policy association doesn’t make any sense.”
“Daioleslam was granted discovery in his defense of the lawsuit, unearthing a wealth of information about NIAC’s founding and Parsi’s contacts with officials in both the Iranian and U.S. governments, including extensive email between Parsi and Javad Zarif…” #IranLobby
“The Daioleslam case revealed several instances in which Parsi used his Hill connections and position as NIAC’s leader to prove his worth to his most senior Iranian government contact.”
“Anything Trita writes comes from Zarif,” says Amirahmadi, who says he introduced the two in the early 2000s. “Trita doesn’t have an independent mind.”
“In Persian-language television interviews, and again when we spoke, Amirahmadi has suggested that it was Zarif—with whom the Rutgers professor had been friendly for two decades—who recommended that Parsi launch an organization like NIAC.”
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