attackerman.firedoglake.com - 11/3/2009
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You know, when writers talk about the Jews or Israel, self-appointed Shtetl Policeman Jeffrey Goldberg demands exactitude , the sort of precision that Paulie shows in Goodfellas when he slices garlic in prison with a razor blade. Yet when he’s called out for ignorantly sliming Trita Parsi as a ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 28 days ago
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corner.nationalreview.com —
Friday, November 09, 2007 Questions for Trita Parsi
[Michael Rubin] The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) has...
been at the forefront of lobbying against continued Congressional funding of Voice of America-Persian service; Radio Farda; and ...
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Questions for Trita Parsi
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/2/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
Trita Parsi heads the National Iranian American Council,
a non-profit representing the interests of the Iranian-American community....
NIAC is an opponent of the Iranian regime’s human rights abuses, condemning discrimination against religious ...
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The War on Trita Parsi
agenda.nationalreview.com - 11/4/2009
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agenda.nationalreview.com —
Daniel Larison, one of the most astute observers
of the American political scene, has returned from a...
too-long hiatus. Citing a post by Andrew Sullivan, he attacks Jeffrey Goldberg for characterizing Trita Parsi, an expert on Iranian affairs who ...
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On Trita Parsi and 'Iran's AIPAC'
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Endgame
Matthew Yglesias —
... scratch it all down into the clay:
— Sam Stein on NIAC, J Street, and their enemies.
— When do people resist occupation?
— The suburban slums of tomorrow.
— Manu Ginobili swats a bat, needs rabies shots.
— These kind of results make me feel sorry for Chris Paul — 32 points, 18 shots, 12 assists, 5 rebounds, 2 turnovers, 1 steal and the Hornets lose to a crappy Knicks team.
— Michael Goldfarb eases comfortably back into his typical posture of deliberate obtuseness and dishonesty. ...
Thirty Years Ago Today… and Today
Firedoglake —
... Now, luckily for us in the U.S., there are Iranian organizations that support the dissidents and raise awareness about them, like Trita Parsi’s National Iranian-American Council or Hadi Ghaemi’s International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Yet over the last several days, journalists like the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg have shrugged at the differences between Parsi and the Iranian regime. The Washington Post’s Jackson Diehl ...
Arguments That Don’t Get Better With Time
Wonk Room —
Defending recent attacks on National Iranian American Council director Trita Parsi as an instrument of Iran, Reihan Salaam doubles down on one of the hoariest of hoary old conservative foreign policy arguments:
[W]hile Parsi is undoubtedly a believer in democratic liberalism who wants to see Iran radically reform its institutions, he objectively serves Iranian interests insofar as he discourages Western efforts to exert pressure on the regime. This doesn’t make Parsi a bad person. Plenty of Iranian dissidents believe ...
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sourcewatch.org 10/20/2008 — From SourceWatch Dr. Trita Parsi "...is the author of Treacherous Triangle - The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States (Yale University Press, 2007.) He wrote his Doctoral thesis on Israeli - Iranian relations under Professor Francis ...
Khamenei says Iran won't be deceived by U.S. —
Reuters: Politics 11/3/2009
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday the Islamic state would not be deceived into reconciliation with its arch foe and the United States was a "really arrogant power," state radio reported.
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