Rise of the ‘Iran Lobby’

⁶¹ Solaimani, Rod, “Takeyh: Containing Iran Unfeasible,” 13 December 2007 on the NAIC website, https://www.niacouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=976&Itemid=2 (Accessed 9 Dec 08.)

⁶² Takeyh, Ray, “What Iran Wants,” Washington Post, 29 December 2008. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122801273.html

⁶³ CAIR’s Vision and Mission Statement https://www.cair.com/AboutUs/VisionMissionCorePrinciples.aspx (Accessed 9 Dec 08.)

⁶⁴ The Investigative Project at https://www.investigativeproject.com for extensive documentation on CAIR and the Holy Land Foundation trials.

⁶⁵ “CAIR’s Hate Crimes,” The Investigative Project on Terrorism, 4 April 2008. https://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/121.pdf This TIP report cites as its source the original Washington Times article, “Why the United States Should Improve Relations with Iran,” June 25, 1998 (p. 20).

⁶⁶ Ibid, The Investigative Project.

⁶⁷ Ibid, The Investigative Project, which cites “Easing of Sanctions Welcomed By American Muslims,” CAIR Press Release, March 17, 2000, https://web.archive.org/web/20010423101904/cair-net.org/nr.asp?date=2000/03/17 (Accessed 9 Dec 08.)

⁶⁸ Poole, Patrick, “CAIR turns on the Columbus Dhimmi Dispatch over dreaded cartoon of blasphemy of the week,” Central Ohioans Against Terrorism, September 6, 2007. https://ohioagainstterror.blogspot.com/2007/09/cair-turns-on-columbus-dhimmi-dispatch.html (Accessed 30 Dec 08.)

⁶⁹ “Khatami Defends Ahmadinejad, Iran’s nuke plans,” Washington Times, 8 September 2006.

https://www.Washingtontimes.com/news/2006/sep/08/20060908-123058-3813r (Accessed 10 Dec 08.)

⁷⁰ Summary account of the panel at the ‘Cathedral Events’ page on the web site of the Washington National Cathedral

https://www.nationalcathedral.org/events/iranpanel071029.shtml (Accessed 10 Dec 08.)

⁷¹ CASMII website https://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=about. (Accessed 25 Feb 2009.)

⁷² Pourzal’s profile https://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/97 (Accessed 22 Dec 08.)

⁷³ CASMII Organization https://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/70

⁷⁴ Sadjadpour, Karim, “Iran: Is Productive Engagement Possible?” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 2008. https://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=22281&prog=zgp&proj=zme

⁷⁵ https://www.cnas.org/files/documents/publications/MillerParthemoreCampbell_Iran%20Assessing%20US%20Strategy_Sept08.pdf (Accessed 10 Dec 08.)

⁷⁶ Baztab, October 27, 2006. Its English language homepage is at https://en.baztab.com (Accessed 30 Dec 08.)

⁷⁷ Nasr, Vali and Ray Takeyh, “What We Can Learn from Britain About Iran,” Baztab, 15 April 2007. https://en.baztab.com/content/?cid=1743 (Accessed 30 Dec 08.)

⁷⁸ From the CNAPI home page https://www.newiranpolicy.org/401.html (Accessed 10 Dec 08.)

⁷⁹ From the Folly of Attacking Iran website https://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iran (Accessed 10 Dec 08.)

⁸⁰ Kinzer, Stephen, “A plea to quiet drums on Iran, and try talk,” Chicago Tribune, May 11, 2008.

⁸¹ “Mr. Kinzer going  to Washington, with your letters on Iran,” Payvand Iran News, 30 May 2008.

⁸² Payvand Iran News https://www.payvand.com/news (Accessed 30 Dec 08.)

⁸³ CAIR Action Alert, “Make a Call to Oppose U.S.-Iran Conflict,” 5 June 2008.

https://www.cair.com/DesktopModules/Articles/Print.aspx?ArticleID=24921&&mid=763 (Accessed 10 Dec 08.) Also listed on the CNAPI Calendar https://newiranpolicy.org/calendar/index.cgi?view_event=1&evt_id=158 (Accessed 10 Dec 08.)

⁸⁴ Joint Experts’ Statement on Iran https://americanforeignpolicy.org (Accessed 10 Dec 08.)

⁸⁵ Ibid

⁸⁶ Doherty, Caitlin B., “Inside Track: The Taming of the Hawks,” The National Interest, 15 November 2007  https://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=16154 (Accessed 30 Dec 08.)

⁸⁷ Giraldi, Philip, “What World War III May Look Like,” 25 September 2007 https://www.antiwar.com/orig/giraldi.php?articleid=11666 (Accessed 30 Dec 08.)

⁸⁸ Giraldi, Philip, “Father of Lies,” July 30, 2008. Originally published on www.antiwar.com, now posted at https://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/5824 (Accessed 30 Dec 08.)

⁸⁹ “Adventures with the CIA in Turkey: Interview with Philip Giraldi,” 30 July 2006. https://www.balkanalysis.com/2006/07/30/adventures-withthe-cia-in-turkey-interview-with-philip-giraldi (Accessed 30 Dec 08.)

⁹⁰ Gaffney, Frank, “A Troubling Influence,” Front Page Magazine, December 9, 2003.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=C7CD908B-6D7E-49EB-A0A9-DA0A18745A29 (Accessed 24 Feb 09.)

⁹¹ Americans for Tax Reform https://web.archive.org/web/20080209145447/https://www.atr.org/index.html was accessed via Archive.org (Accessed 24 Feb 09.) Its new website, is https://www.atr.org

⁹² The Islamic Free Market Institute Foundation https://www.islamicinstitute.org/pressr/pr-2003-6-11.htm carries an 11 June 2003 Wall Street Journal press release that describes the mission and purpose of the Institute. The press release listed Samah Alrayyes, now Mrs. Grover Norquist, as the Institute point of contact. (Accessed 22 Feb 09.)

⁹³ “Forgotten Investigation, Emails Offer Insight into IIIT Probe” IPT News, August 3, 2008. https://www.investigativeproject.org/737/forgotteninvestigation-emails-offer-insight-into-iiit-probe (Accessed 22 Feb 09.)

⁹⁴ Gitell, Seth, “Strange Bedfellows: Grover Norquist and Abdurahman Alamoudi,” Boston Phoenix, October 4-11, 2001. https://bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/this_just_in/documents/01848515.htm

⁹⁵ Timmerman, Ken, “Islamists’ Front Man,” Insight Magazine, 24 February 2004.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.aspx?GUID=6BF874BB-9F0A-4D8F-9FB5-C717A1A256B0 (Accessed 22 Feb 09.)

⁹⁶ Gitell; see also Malkin, Michelle, “The GOP’s Grover Norquist problem and the RNC debate,” January 5, 2009 https://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/05/the-gops-grover-norquist-problem (Accessed 22 Feb 09.)

⁹⁷ “Some Muslim Leaders Seen with Bush Expressed Support for Terrorist Groups,” Fox News.com, October 1, 2001. https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,35384,00.html (Accessed 22 Feb 09.)

⁹⁸ Gaffney, Frank, “The Faisal Gill Affair,” Front Page Magazine, 19 July 2004. https://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.aspx?GUID=A5595219-68B6-4838-9E26-B491C3F50188 (Accessed 22 Feb 09.)

⁹⁹ ACDA website https://www.acdalliance.org/. (Accessed 25 Feb 09.)

¹⁰⁰ American Conservative Defense Alliance https://acdalliance.org (Accessed 22 Feb 09.)

¹⁰¹ CNAP welcome page https://www.newiranpolicy.org (Accessed 22 Feb 09.)

¹⁰² Gemma,  Peter B., “Middle East Mischief,” featured under the ‘Iran’ link for ACDA Issues. Book review at https://acdalliance.org/issues/Iran (Accessed 22 Feb 09.)

¹⁰³ Giraldi, Philip, “A Bipartisan Shell Game: False Consensus on How to Deal with Iran.” https://acdalliance.org/issues/Iran (Accessed 22 Feb 09.)

¹⁰⁴ “No War With Iran,” 21 March 2007. https://acdalliance.org/letters/04-21-2008-no-war-with-iran (Accessed 22 Feb 09.)

¹⁰⁵ https://www.michaeldostrolenk.com/middle-east-seminars (Accessed 22 Feb 09.)