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http://iranlobby.net/introduction/
Introduction
The Iran Lobby consists of numerous groups and individuals who seek to influence western policies toward Iran and often advocate positions indistinguishable from those of the Iranian regime.
Some groups are funded by western companies wanting to change US law to gain access to Iran’s oil and gas reserves. Others have close ties to the regime and operate in lock step with the mullahs. Still others are members of an anti-war coalition working with pro-Iran groups and are used, wittingly or not, to support policies advantageous to the regime.
The Iran Lobby whitewashes the Iranian regime’s military expansionist ambitions, its deplorable human rights record, its misogynist and repressive laws, intolerance, political persecutions, sponsorship of terrorism, and its development of long-range missiles and nuclear weapons.
Lobbying Strategies
The Iran Lobby is aware of the regime’s many failings and acts accordingly, adopting the following strategies:
To the extent possible, the groups and individuals avoid openly supporting the regime to prevent being directly identified with the mullahs and thus undercutting their credibility.
They indirectly provide support to the regime by focusing on issues, such as opposing economic sanctions and opposing any military operations.
They claim Iran’s rulers are divided into two camps, moderates and hardliners. Western leaders, they maintain, must engage in dialogue with the moderates and offer concessions to prevent the hardliners from gaining more power at the expense of the non-existent moderates.
The groups and individuals hide behind the Iranian people, falsely ascribing to them broad opinions, in order to justify the regime’s behavior. For example, they claim the Iranian people have legitimate grievances with the US, given its earlier support for the Shah, and thus America should show restraint in advocating its political positions toward the mullahIntroduction
The Iran Lobby consists of numerous groups and individuals who seek to influence western policies toward Iran and often advocate positions indistinguishable from those of the Iranian regime.
Some groups are funded by western companies wanting to change US law to gain access to Iran’s oil and gas reserves. Others have close ties to the regime and operate in lock step with the mullahs. Still others are members of an anti-war coalition working with pro-Iran groups and are used, wittingly or not, to support policies advantageous to the regime.
The Iran Lobby whitewashes the Iranian regime’s military expansionist ambitions, its deplorable human rights record, its misogynist and repressive laws, intolerance, political persecutions, sponsorship of terrorism, and its development of long-range missiles and nuclear weapons.
Lobbying Strategies
The Iran Lobby is aware of the regime’s many failings and acts accordingly, adopting the following strategies:
To the extent possible, the groups and individuals avoid openly supporting the regime to prevent being directly identified with the mullahs and thus undercutting their credibility.
They indirectly provide support to the regime by focusing on issues, such as opposing economic sanctions and opposing any military operations.
They claim Iran’s rulers are divided into two camps, moderates and hardliners. Western leaders, they maintain, must engage in dialogue with the moderates and offer concessions to prevent the hardliners from gaining more power at the expense of the non-existent moderates.
The groups and individuals hide behind the Iranian people, falsely ascribing to them broad opinions, in order to justify the regime’s behavior. For example, they claim the Iranian people have legitimate grievances with the US, given its earlier support for the Shah, and thus America should show restraint in advocating its political positions toward the mullah
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Some people strongly argue that some of those so-called “leftists”, Iran “experts” filled in almost every sector including think thanks, or as professors in academia, or “liberals” get paid to secretly and illegally lobby for, and in the favor of, the Iranian government. I am not talking about these groups; my question is directed towards the other leftist groups.
The answer to this question is multidimensional and is linked to preserving ones economic, financial and career interests, as well as related to the American or Western educational systems. I will focus on the second dimension since the first one – the self-interest financial and career dimension- is self-explanatory.
In Western academic systems, including highly regarded ones, students are normally taught utilizing teaching methods that encourages enhancing critical thinking and taking the students out of their comfort zone. It appears that a significant part of shaping this critical thinking is to focus on literatures that examines Western imperialism, colonialism, and orientalism.
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As a result, when it comes to Iran-US or Iran-West relationships, many develop a picture of “we” (the imperialists, colonialist, aggressors, and orientalists) versus “they” [the Iranian government] (the repressed and victims). Since the focus becomes how the US treated or mistreated Iran, the whole picture of what is happening inside Iran, what the Iranian government is doing to its people, how the Iran government is exploiting the situation, or how the Iranian government is acting in the region becomes irrelevant and is
disregarded.
The Islamic Republic tends to love these kinds of Western “liberals” and “leftists” because they fit into Iran’s agenda of demonizing and blaming the West while disregarding or justifying Iran’s aggressive actions. Many are repeatedly invited to speak on Iranian media outlets or participate in other activities.
Many fail to realize that this framework of thinking, which is like a box itself, has become their new comfort zone.
The major problems with this predominant framework of Western liberal and leftist thinking, which is pro-Iran government in this case, is that: it is binary, simplified, and unsophisticated, it does not reflect the nuances, and complexities of Iran’s politics, and does not do any justice to the overwhelming majority of the Iranian people and others in the region, such as the Syrian people.
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נערך לאחרונה ע"י hamedinai בתאריך 30-12-2017 בשעה 22:32.
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