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June 22, 2015

The 36-Year Campaign to Whitewash Iran

Led by the National Iranian American Council.

Since gaining power in the 1979 revolution, the Iranian regime has benefited from numerous efforts by Westerners to downplay its support for terrorism and its fanatical ideology, urging instead that once Iran’s wholly legitimate grievances are addressed, it will rapidly become a moderate and friendly power. Among the most zealous proponents of this approach is the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), a Washington lobby whose positions are frequently mimicked by the Obama administration, as Sohrab Amari writes:

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