The New Iran Man at the State Department's Iran Desk

[Jedburgh]

....I don't have the figures but I am assuming AIPAC's funds - as a proxy for influence - dwarf the other two.

There is fairly lengthy discussion of AIPAC here:

Mandatory Reading For Anyone Interested in the Middle East: The Israeli Lobby

Please continue any additional discussion of AIPAC in that thread.

[JJackson]

Yes. Thank you I have read - and posted in - that thread.

[phoenix80]

I'm sorry to inform you that your personal experience does not validate you as a good barometer of all Iranian people. Especially on the internet.

It does. In fact it puts me at a better position to judge it than it would ever put you or any one else for that matter.

(Revisiting the discussion despite my promise not to.)

Lobby groups typically issue press releases and lobby in order to achieve what it is they want to achieve. They typically do not lobby Congress to do the exact opposite of what it is they want.

Really, we're making this far more complicated than it is. NAIC represents one set of the diverse views in the Iranian-American community. Those views are quite different from those articulated by the regime, and quite different from those articulate by some regime opponents.

Occam's razor, folks.

I hate to break it to you but they are on the side of the regime and they try to further the agenda of the Iranian regime in Washington DC.

[Jedburgh]

Despite attempts to steer the thread, it is clearly past its useful point.

Individual biases are trending towards personal attacks.

This thread is closed.