The pro-Tehran agenda of the Obama- Biden White House didn’t stop with their embrace of NIAC or the incredibly flawed nuclear deal.


members across the United States who were appalled at the human suffering sanctions were imposing on ordinary Iranians. I called NIAC “the mullahs’ voice.”


with Iran is in the naked self-interest of the United States of America.”


KERRY CONNECTION Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., was another prominent supporter of the Iranian regime. Kerry came out squarely in favor


of “engaging” the Islamic Republic, helping the regime to join the World Trade Organization, and of removing visa restrictions on Iranians that were imposed post-Sept. 11. Kerry’s daughter Vanessa went on to


marry an Iranian American and spent her honeymoon visiting his relatives in Iran when Kerry was secretary of state, not long before he initiated secret talks with the regime that led to the infamous 2015 Iran nuclear agreement. Amirahmadi, the founder and


chairman of AIC, was soon surpassed by a former aide named Trita Parsi, who came to America from Sweden in 2001 to swim in the big pond. The following year he set up the


National Iranian American Council, NIAC. Instead of Big Oil, their back- ers were the left-wing Ploughshares Fund, the Open Society Foundations (formerly the Open Society Institute) of George Soros, and the Tides Foun- dation, funded in part by Kerry’s wife, Teresa Heinz.


MULLAHS’ VOICE NIAC claimed to have thousands of


Their goals were to prevent a U.S. mil- itary strike on Iran, to get U.S. and international sanctions lifted, and to promote a “grand bargain” with Iran’s clerical leadership. I had first identified Parsi in Octo-


ber 2000, while he was still living in Stockholm. At the time, he had set up an advo-


cacy group, Iranians for International Cooperation, to lobby the U.S. govern- ment to lift sanctions on Iran. That article was part of an eight-part


series into Clinton’s attempt to negoti- ate a backdoor deal with Tehran just before the 2000 election. If it had been successful, the deal


not only would have lifted sanctions and reopened U.S. trade with Iran but would have reimbursed Iran billions of dollars for U.S. military spare parts sit- ting in storage since the hostage crisis in Virginia.


EAR OF PRESIDENT With the election of Barack Obama and his pro-Iranian regime vice presi- dent Biden, NIAC felt the wind in its sails.


Parsi visited the Obama White


House over 30 times, and felt he had the ear of the new president. When millions of Iranians took to


the streets of Tehran in May 2009 fol- lowing the disputed reelection of Presi- dent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Obama remained silent for well over three weeks, even as Iranians held up signs in English asking, “Obama, are you with us?” Clearly, Obama was with the regime,


not the protesters. Parsi went on to become a semi-


official adjunct to the Iranian regime negotiating team during talks that led to the 2015 nuclear deal. The State Department dispatched


Parsi on a speaking tour to Saudi Ara- bia and hired Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, a former NIAC employee, as the national security director for Iran. The pro-Tehran agenda of the


Obama-Biden White House didn’t stop with their embrace of NIAC or the incredibly flawed nuclear deal. They also sought, through the Department of Justice and the Depart- ment of the Treasury, to go after Ira- nian pro-freedom advocates in the United States.


CHEERLEADER NIAC supporter Philip Gordon advised Kerry during the Iran nuclear deal negotiations and became Vice Presi- dent Kamala Harris’ national security adviser in 2021. He was touted as a potential secre-


tary of state nominee if Harris won the presidency in 2024. Gordon was not merely a cheering bystander to the Washington, D.C., pro-Tehran lobby. He authored three opinion pieces with Ariane Tabata- bai “blatantly promoting the Iranian regime’s perspective and interests,” according to a letter to Harris from Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkan- sas and Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York.


Kenneth R. Timmerman is a senior fellow at the America First Policy Institute and the author of 14 works of nonfiction and four novels. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on Iran in 2006.


Adapted from The Iran House: Tales of Revolution, Persecution, War, and Intrigue, published October 2024 by Bombardier Books.


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