{"id":236708,"date":"2021-03-23T13:51:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T18:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=236708"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:02:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:02:34","slug":"iran-concerns-over-iranian-regime-influence-and-its-lobby-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/iran-concerns-over-iranian-regime-influence-and-its-lobby-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Concerns Over Iranian Regime Influence and Its Lobby Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meet some Iranian lobbies in West: (from left) Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Trita Parsi, Mohammad Javad zarif with Kaveh Afrasiabi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Iranian regime has a long history of trying to influence Western policy through clandestine lobbying and coordinated disinformation campaigns. Such activities have helped to muddy the waters regarding Iran\u2019s past nuclear work, to demonize or discredit leading Iranian opposition groups, and to simply promote talking points that are favorable to the clerical regime, such as the idea that economic sanctions are more harmful to the general population than to government institutions.<\/p>\n

The National Iranian American Council (NIAC<\/a>) is a well-known group in the U.S. parroting Iran\u2019s regime narratives and since the new administration took office, have been insisting the regime\u2019s demand that as for the Iran deal, Washington should drop all the sanctions that were re-imposed or expanded under the previous administration, regardless of the fact that the Iranian regime had gone beyond the levels of nuclear stockpiling and technical sophistication that it had established before the JCPOA went into effect.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, New Mexico Representative Yvette Herrell was joined by eight fellow members of the U.S. House of Representatives in writing to the Department of Justice to urge an investigation aimed at identifying and prosecuting any Americans who have been paid to secretly promote the Iranian regime\u2019s talking points. The need for such an investigation had previously been underscored by the arrest of Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi<\/a>, a Massachusetts political scientist who is accused of violating the Foreign Assets Registration Act by writing articles and opinion pieces on Iranian affairs while receiving approximately 265,000 dollars from the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n

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Iranian Lobbyist\u2019s Arrest Should Lead To Broader Efforts To Counter Iran\u2019s Covert Influence<\/div><\/div>
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