Two high-level Iranian government backers, including a former Islamic Republic official and another accused of lobbying on Tehran’s behalf, were hosted at the Obama White House for more than 30 meetings with top officials at key junctures in the former administration’s contested diplomacy with Iran.
A lethargy has set in among Western leftists: anything is tolerated in the pursuit of “peace” and “global harmony,” with few, if any, questions asked.
Iran also reportedly received as much as $33.6 BILLION dollars in backroom deal payments facilitated by the Obama administration.
Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon adviser and expert on rogue regimes, told the Free Beacon that the previous administration bent over backward to host pro-Iran advocates.
“Former Iranian Official, Pro-Tehran Lobbyist Hosted at Obama White House Dozens of Times, by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, January 23, 2017:
Two high-level Iranian government backers, including a former Islamic Republic official and another accused of lobbying on Tehran’s behalf, were hosted at the Obama White House for more than 30 meetings with top officials at key junctures in the former administration’s contested diplomacy with Iran, according to White House visitor logs that provide a window into the former administration’s outreach to leading pro-Iran advocates.
Seyed Mousavian, a former Iranian diplomat and head of its national security council, was hosted at the White House at least three times, while Trita Parsi, a pro-Iran advocate long accused of hiding his ties to the Iranian government, met with Obama administration officials some 33 times, according to recently updated visitor logs.
Sources familiar with the nature of the meetings told the Washington Free Beacon that both Parsi and Mousavian helped the White House craft its pro-Iran messaging and talking points that helped lead to the nuclear agreement with Iran. These efforts were part of a larger pro-Iran deal “echo chamber” led by senior Obama administration officials who were tasked with misleading Congress about the nature of the deal.
Mousavian, who also served as Iran’s spokesperson during negotiations with the international community on the Iran deal, visited with White House National Security Council official Robert Malley, who advised the former president about the Middle East and the Islamic State terror group.
“Mousavian was Iran’s ambassador to Germany back in the 1990s, when that embassy was the central node of Iran’s European terror network and those in Germany were murdering dissidents in Berlin,” one veteran Iran analyst who frequently works with Congress on the issue told the Free Beacon. “Later he came to the U.S., where he’s being paid for with tens of thousands of dollars from the Ploughshares Fund, which funded the Ben Rhodes echo chamber.”
“In his writings and speeches [Mousavian] repeats the echo chamber talking points by shilling for the Iran deal, talking up fake Iranian moderation, and spinning conspiracy theories about Israelis and Arabs,” the source added. “No wonder White House officials found time for him.”
Parsi, head of the National Iranian American Council, an outfit tied to the Obama White House that helped spearhead a pro-Iran narrative, met with several senior Obama administration officials during dozens of visits to the White House, the logs show.
This included private, one-on-one meetings with Obama adviser Ben Rhodes, who helmed what he described as the White House’s pro-Iran deal “echo chamber,” as well as meetings with Malley and Colin Kahl, national security adviser to former Vice President Joe Biden. Parsi also met with the White House NSC’s director for Iran, its senior director, legislative liaisons, and public engagement officials, according to sources familiar with the nature of these meetings.
In one instance, Parsi was signed into the White House by Solomon Tarlin, a West Wing intern and supporter of the Middle East advocacy group J Street.
Parsi expressed pride in his relationship with the Obama White House, telling the Free Beacon that attacks against his organization by Republicans and opponents of diplomacy of Iran did little to harm his status with the Obama team.
“I am delighted that you are highlighting my working relationship with the Obama White House as it demonstrates how all the attacks and false accusations made against my organization utterly failed to harm our credibility in Washington,” Parsi said. “Instead, we enjoyed a strong relationship with the White House that helped ensure that the Iranian nuclear crisis neither led to an Iranian bomb or war with Iran.”
Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon adviser and expert on rogue regimes, told the Free Beacon that the previous administration bent over backward to host pro-Iran advocates.
“Talk about letting the fox into the hen house. Letting the head of an organization whose foreign policy positions are indistinguishable from the Islamic Republic more than 30 times would be analogous to letting the Soviet Union’s chief lobbyist help guide policy during the Cold War,” Rubin said.
“During the Bush administration, Parsi thought nothing of dining with [Former Iranian President] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and his private emails, released as part of a court-ordered discovery process, show that he lied to the U.S. press and coached Iranian officials in order to weaken sanctions and promote the Islamic Republic,” Rubin said.
Saeed Ghasseminejad, an associate fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and Iran expert, told the Free Beacon that the logs shed light on the close relationship between the Obama team and the pro-Iran community in the United States.
“These logs show the depth of the close relationship between pro-Tehran groups and Obama’s White House,” he said. “Mr. Mousavian’s visit is a red flag. Mr. Mousavian, Iran’s ambassador in Berlin when Iran assassinated many of its critics in Germany, is on the record talking about the necessity of having a powerful Tehran lobby in the United States and publicly admits he is doing public diplomacy to improve the Islamic regime’s image.”
“The fact that such figures or other pro-Tehran groups such as NIAC heavily contributed to Obama’s Iran-policy shows that the new administration should radically change not only Iran-policy but also the Iran-teams in the responsible entities,” Ghasseminejad wrote.
Peter Kohanloo, president of the Iranian American Majority, which opposes the hardline regime in Tehran, said that advocates such as Mousavian and Parsi played a key role in ensuring the Iran deal was inked.
“I would say the fact that the Iranian regime’s top advocate had such a high level of access to the Obama White House tells you everything you need to know about how the nuclear deal was made and why President Trump rightfully called it a bad deal,” Kohanloo said. “The new administration should immediately rethink its approach to the Iranian threat and discard the policies of the past.”…..

mortimer says
The FBI and CIA need to do some snooping to find the money trial from Iran and Saudi Arabia to American politicians.
Whoever has been bribed by those countries should be prosecuted. There is surely bribery at the highest levels.
The public deserves the truth.
LB says
The swamps in FBI and CIA need to be drained first before opening an honest and true investigation into the Obama admin. Too many leftists are currently plaguing those two, who are prepared to do anything to sabotage all Trump’s efforts in criminally pursuing HBO and his Muslim Brotherhood agents.
Carolyne says
Mortimer, the FBI and the CIA were both taken over by Obama and his Muslim cohorts. They have no interest in doing any “Snooping” when it comes to Obama. Next we will hear that some of them have met Obama at a secret meeting on the tarmac at some airport to discuss how to further subvert American justice. I know that Brennan is gone but I’m sure he still has operatives in the CIA willing to do his bidding. Obama won’t leave. He might have been flown on Richard Branson’s airplane down to the Caribbean but that’s just a vacation. He’ll be back in that mansion he rented in Washington to subvert the government even further.
mortimer says
Correction: find the money TRAIL … then bring corrupt pols to TRIAL
miriamrove says
He is disgraceful. m
gravenimage says
Obama hosted former Iranian official, pro-Tehran lobbyist at White House numerous times
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I knew more and more of this ugliness would come out–still shocking.
Angemon says
Same here, GI – and we haven’t seen the last of it yet.
DFD says
Off topic, again
Some news, or entertainment? No kidding:
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From Germany 25 (yes, twenty-five) Afghans were repatriated. On board of the aircraft were 79 (!) members of the Federal Police, 1 Translator, Several doctors, 3 representatives of the ‘anti torture commission’ **{(WTF!!!) and don’t ask what that commission is, I have no idea}** plus 1 representative of the EU border force FRONTEX (that’s the taxi service picking up “refugees” in the med and shipping them, to Europe)
One Afghan was under psychological stress and had to return to Germany for medical treatment…
OK. they took off from Frankfurt on Monday evening and arrived Tuesday morning 07:10 in Kabul, local time. Cost of the operation unknown.
During that time 2,700 ‘new’ “refugees” arrived in Germany
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Courtesy Merkel, Soros & Co.
Poor Germany, poor Europe…..
LB says
ROFL! All of them will come back to GerMONEY as undocumented “migrants” before you know it.
underbed cat says
All the talk about Hilliary’s e-mails and nothing from obama ? Maybe a recording thru a pen?
I am releived to read that Comey will continue his work in the new Trump administration.
Carolyne says
IMO Comey was directed to not prosecute Hillary Clinton after Attorney General Lynch met Bill Clinton at a secret meeting on her airplane on the tarmac in a Arizona.. Shortly thereafter, Comey announced that Hillary Clinton, even though she had broken the law, would not be prosecuted. Why do you think that happened? Could it be that Lynch was promised that she would continue as AG in a second Clinton administration if she just did this one little favor for Hillary? Comey had to go along since Lynch was his boss and I guess he wanted to keep his job too. But it’s now time for them all to come clean. Comey first. But Trump has announced that Comey will keep his job. Let’s hope that he came clean with Trump.
Donovan Nuera says
Hmmmm….Obama’s staff did not try to hide the 80 idiotic names and illiterate squiggles of “allah” on the frosted glass windows of that radical mosque in Baltimorgue…..but put a black tarp over a simple ornamental cross behind the podium at Jihad-Town (previously Georgetown U.).
DFD says
Some news from Europe, that is Finland
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Under Nazi and Bolshevist tyranny it was common practice that children in school were encouraged and urged to report on parents, if the parents are “out of line … preach hatred … are reactionary … fill in the rest.”
In Finland school children are encouraged to report on their parents if they criticize immigration, practice hate speech or are supportive of fascist notions. The latter means politically incorrect.
Carlos Danger says
Deplorable BHO.
What a sad, shifty piece of work.
Carmel says
So Mr tele-prompter is back ! Wow ! The peace Nobel Prize winner! The man who dropped 200,000 bombs in his 8 years at Presidency . One every 20 minutes! It is surely the most bombing Nobel peace ever.
kinley says
Question: How much might be donated from Iranian sources to the Obama foundation, from an Iran grateful for the favors and hundreds of billions of dollars Iran received from the Obama administration. How much is more than $150 billion worth in donations? Tens of millions? Hundreds of millions?
Carolyne says
Probably the Iranians wouldn’t miss a billion or two if it went to a worthy cause, like an Obama Foundation.
Hummer says
We have a legal right to know if treason was committed and it needs followed up on now. Very disturbing but not surprising and it fits with him and his whole background. Our intelligence services need questioned as to what they knew and why they didn’t report it to Congress.
Carolyne says
If it has been reported to Congress, just what do you think Congress would do about it? What they’ve been doing for the past eight years. Nothing.