by:
Pamela Geller
Every senator who accepted money from the Iranian American Political
Action Committee (IPAC) should be impeached and removed from office — or
at very least, soundly defeated the next time he or she comes up for
reelection. But the enemedia, true to form, will cover for them and do everything it can to keep them on the government payroll.
“Gillibrand and other pro-Dealers got Iran cash,” by Jeff Dunetz,
The Jewish Star, September 3, 2015 (thanks to Banafsheh):
One of the many unanswered questions about P5+1 agreement with Iran is why so many Congressional Democrats are rallying behind the President on
this issue when recent polls show the majority of Americans want
Congress to reject the deal.
Part of the reason is obvious: they are supporting a president from
their own party, but a not-so-obvious reason may be that there is a
“nefarious” lobby trying to control American foreign policy, and for a
change the anti-Semites can’t blame the Jews. Iranian lobbyists are
making big campaign donations to Democrats and are funding pro-deal
propaganda.
Writing in Front Page Magazine, Daniel Greenfield pointed out that
many of the Democratic legislators who announced their support for the
deal are getting money from the Iran lobby, specifically the Iranian
American Political Action Committee, IPAC, which maxed out its
contributions to Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) and Al Franken (D-Minn) — each
received $5,000 in the 2014 election cycle.
“Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), the Iran lobby’s third Dem senator,
didn’t bother playing coy like her colleagues. She came out for the deal
a while back even though she only got half the IAPAC cash that Franken
and Markey received.”
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), who represents the state with the
largest Jewish population in America, surprised many with her support of
the deal. In addition to IAPAC cash, “Gillibrand had also picked up
money from the Iran lobby’s Hassan Nemazee,” Greenfield reports.
“Nemazee was Hillary’s national campaign finance director who had raised
a fortune for both her and Kerry before pleading guilty to a fraud
scheme encompassing hundreds of millions of dollars. Nemazee had been an
IAPAC trustee and had helped set up the organization.”
Barbara Boxer, who also came out for the deal, also Iran lobby funds.
Getting IPAC cash on the House side were Mike Honda (D-CA), Andre
Carson (D-IN), Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Donna Edwards (D-MD) and Jackie
Speier (D-CA). Each of them supports Obama’s P5+1 turkey.
But the Iran lobby’s biggest wins weren’t Markey or Shaheen. The real
victory had come long before when two of their biggest politicians, Joe
Biden and John Kerry, had moved into prime positions in the
administration. Not only IAPAC, but key Iran lobby figures had been
major donors to both men.
“That list includes Housang Amirahmadi, the founder of the American
Iranian Council, who had spoken of a campaign to ‘conquer Obama’s heart
and mind’ and had described himself as ‘the Iranian lobby in the United
States.’ It includes the Iranian Muslim Association of North America
(IMAN) board members who had fundraised for Biden. And it includes the
aforementioned Hassan Nemazee.
“A member of Iran’s opposition had accused Biden’s campaigns of being
‘financed by Islamic charities of the Iranian regime based in
California and by the Silicon Iran network.’ Biden’s affinity for the
terrorist regime in Tehran was so extreme that after 9/11 he had
suggested, ‘Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings
attached, a check for $200 million to Iran’.
Another part of the Iran lobby pushing the deal is the Ploughshares
Fund. Ploughshares is not pushing the deal directly, but it’s financing
many of the other groups pushing Congress to vote “yes.” Michael Rubin
exposed the Plowshares money in a recent Commentary piece.
According to Rubin, Ploughshares Fund is “a multimillion-dollar group
which defines itself as a foundation seeking nuclear disarmament but
which has, for several years, taken a consistently apologetic line
toward Iran.” Ploughshares has been throwing its weight behind
influential organizations such as the National Iranian American Council,
the Arms Control Association, and the Atlantic Council, among others,
in an attempt to garner support for the deal, Rubin reported.
Ploughshares gave $150,000 to the National Iranian American Council
for “advocacy” about the Iran Deal, $210,000 to the Arms Control
Association to “influence US policy toward Iran,” and another $25,000 to
fund an “expert workshop” and press briefings, according to Rubin.
Per its annual report, Ploughshares also gives money to the
anti-Israel group, J Street ($100,000) that has not only fought
additional sanctions over recent years but also that has worked to
promote the Iran agreement. J Street’s support also comes from the fact
that it was President Obama, not the Jewish community who gave the group
legitimacy.
“In short, Ploughshares spread millions of dollars around to
pro-administration groups to support whatever Iran Deal came out of
Vienna. To criticize the Iran Deal would be to risk a significant source
of funding—double digits percentages of their total budget in most
cases—of these various groups,”
Organizations receiving funding from
Ploughshares rarely acknowledge they’re being lobbied. They produce
biased analysis and host one-sided panel discussions in order to advance
the agenda they are being paid to move forward.
“Hence, various organizations hosted one-sided panels in the wake of
the Iran Deal announcement with multiple Ploughshares grantees without
acknowledging their funding from the Ploughshares grantees.”
At various times during the debate about his Iran agreement,
President Obama has talked about nefarious lobby money pushing against
peace. Something that many have commented was a not-so-veiled reference
to the anti-Semitic meme that some hidden “Jewish lobby” controls the
government.
The lobby that neither the president nor the congressional supporters
of his deal will talk about is the pro-Iranian lobby that, either
through campaign cash or directly in support of the deal, are a huge
force in trying to give Obama his short-term legacy, the P5+1 agreement.
Long-term, that deal may very well be remembered by the ultimate war to end all wars waged by an apocalyptic Iran.
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