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  • [Who is the "analyst" CNN quotes 6.15.25? Islamic Republic] 'Tehran’s Best Friend in Washington' [Trita Parsi]

    06/15/2025 9:10:31 PM PDT · by Words Matter
    CAMERA ^ | November 24, 2015 | Sean Durns
    ("an analyst told CNN." CNN, June 15, 2025 https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-15-25) _______ CAMERA Special Report: The National Iranian American Council; Tehran’s Best Friend in Washington. By: Sean Durns November 24, 2015. [...] Parsi’s dissertation on Israeli-Iranian relations served as the basis for his book Treacherous Alliance (2008, Yale University Press). Parsi is a resident alien, with Swedish and Iranian passports, not an American citizen, although he runs an organization that claims to represent Iranian-Americans... Upon coming to the United States in 2001, Parsi worked as a managing director for Hooshang Amirhadmadi of the American Iranian Council (AIC) while completing graduate study. Parsi...
  • Claudia Rosett's Oil-for-Food Congressional Testimony

    04/23/2004 10:28:09 PM PDT · by Ooh-Ah · 31 replies · 407+ views
    April 21, 2004 | Claudia Rosett
    Statement for the Record of Claudia Rosett     Journalist Senior Fellow, The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies And Adjunct Fellow, The Hudson Institute    Before the House Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations   April 21, 2004      Mr. Chairman, distinguished members of the Committtee, I thank you for the opportunity to testify here today. Speaking as a journalist, I would like to tell you that when I first began asking questions about Oil-for-Food, in 2002, it was not with the aim of uncovering a scam. I wished simply to understand what appeared to be a complicated relief effort -- complications which, as we have since learned, served to...