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The Quincy Institute is being led by #Iran's chief lobbyist Trita Parsi & backed with big money from Charles Koch & George Soros.

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The Quincy Institute is being led by #Iran's chief lobbyist Trita Parsi & backed with big money from Charles Koch & George Soros.

While having their differences, normalization with Iran's terrorist regime is their genuine point of convergence.

Washington’s Weirdest Think Tank
Led by Trita Parsi and backed by Charles Koch and George Soros, the Quincy Institute seeks to redefine the contours of American foreign policy in the Middle East, China—and beyond
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news ... rmin-rosen
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Parsi has very close ties to Iran’s senior officials.
Remember the 2015 nuclear talks?

Parsi is known as the founder of Tehran's DC-based lobby arm, @NIACouncil.

And the likes of CNN & MSNBC eagerly provide airtime to Parsi.




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Listen to this Iranian regime insider explain that NIAC was established by @JZarif, the foreign minister of Iran.
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"While roughly $500,000 each in initial funding came from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations & the Charles Koch Institute, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund [has] in recent years has plowed millions of dollars into backing the Iran nuclear deal..."
tabletmag.com/sections/news/…



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"But if Quincy’s stances on China and Syria might clash with much of Open Society’s other activities, there is plenty of agreement on Iran, one of the most politically divisive overseas challenges the Biden administration faces."

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NIAC was founded in 2002 by Parsi, an Iranian-born dual citizen of Iran & Sweden & and a vocal champion of Obama’s controversial Iran nuclear deal.

Ali Vaez of the Int'l Crisis Group is a protégé of former Iranian regime president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.




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"Quincy’s board also includes Francis Najafi, an Arizona-based Iranian American businessman whose foundation donated $465,000 to NIAC between 2010 and 2018."
projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/org…


Pivotal Foundation - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as…
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprof ... /203959093
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Adam Weinstein, a Quincy research fellow, is NIAC’s former senior law/policy analyst. Suzanne DiMaggio, Quincy’s board chair, is known for organizing closed-door conferences between American academics & former officials and their counterparts from enemy countries like Iran.




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“The way they would phrase it to me is, we think there’s an overlap of interests, and we know the Trita Parsi crew well,” one foreign policy scholar told me of Open Society’s support for Quincy.
-Joe Cirincione
-Rob Malley
-Colin Kahl




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The overlap between Open Society and the “Parsi crew” now also extends to Quincy’s staff: Lora Lumpe, Quincy’s CEO, was an advocacy director for Open Society when the organization was active in backing the Obama administration’s Iran policy.



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Court documents from Sep 2006:
Parsi sent confidential info to Zarif, informing him that based on what he heard in Congress, Bolton would not get the Senate vote to become U.S. Ambassador to UN.

Credit: @IranianForum

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Emails from 2006 between Parsi & Zarif, then Iran’s ambassador to the UN.

Paris described himself by saying: “Few analysts in Washington have the access of Dr. Parsi to decision makers in Iran.”

Source:
iraniansforum.com/index.php/fact…





http://www.iraniansforum.com/index.php/ ... zarif.html
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Listen to how Trita Parsi parrots Zarif’s talking points.
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Here’s an email from Parsi on June 18, 2009, to Antony Blinken, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State from 2015-17 & Deputy National Security Advisor from 2013-15 in the Obama administration.


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The Obama admin was in bed with Iran’s regime & its lobby group NIAC, based on released emails.

“I have chatted with NIAC folks over the years”

“we do have a relationship with NIAC”

NIAC sought the admin’s advice on paying President Clinton for a speech.




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How Trita Parsi & NIAC Used the White House to Advance Iran’s Agenda

“… organizing the grassroots and pressure US lawmakers to pose a more Iran friendly position.”

How Trita Parsi and NIAC Used the White House to Advance Iran’s Agenda
In 2005, Jack Abramoff’s corruption and lobbying scandal became public. One of Abramoff’s main accomplices was Bob Ney, a former congressman from Ohio who was sentenced to 30 months in prison. Part of…
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news ... ans-agenda
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Former Iranian Official, Pro-Tehran Lobbyist Hosted at Obama White House Dozens of Times

“Trita Parsi, a pro-Iran advocate long accused of hiding his ties to the Iranian government, met with Obama administration officials some 33 times…”

Fmr. Iranian Official, Pro-Tehran Lobbyist Hosted at Obama White House
Two high-level Iranian government backers were hosted at the Obama White House for more than 30 meetings with top officials during diplomacy with Iran.
https://freebeacon.com/national-securit ... ens-times/
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A very informative piece on NIAC by @michaeldjohnsjr.

"The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) frequently echoes Tehran’s rhetoric in redirecting blame at the U.S. for Iranian aggression and malfeasance."

An Iran Lobby in America? | National Review
The National Iranian American Council frequently echoes Tehran’s rhetoric in redirecting blame at the U.S. for Iranian aggression and malfeasance.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/ ... n-america/
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Iran took advantage of the Obama administration's appeasement & had apologists/lobbyists push its talking points freely.

For starters, the U.S. should pursue an investigation into Tehran’s lobby arm NIAC.

Congress Seeks Investigation Into Pro-Iran Lobby Group Tied to Tehran Regime
Congressional leaders have petitioned the Trump administration to launch an investigation into a pro-Iran lobbying organization.
https://freebeacon.com/national-securit ... an-regime/
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Finally, a reminder of how the highly flawed & failed Obama nuclear deal provided huge amounts of money to the regime in Iran.

Iranian MP Alireza Zakani: The Obama administration gave Iran $1.7 billion in unmarked cash, with $400 million in suitcases.
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