State Department Sending Senior Official to Attend Conference of Group That Advocates for Iranian Theocracy…
Another shocker, Keith Ellison will also be in attendance.
(Daily Caller) — The State Department is sending a senior official to attend a March 15 meeting hosted by the National Iranian-American Council, which has been derided by critics as a thinly-veiled advocate for Iran’s Islamic theocracy.
Suzanne Nossel, the deputy assistant secretary of state for international organizations is slated to speak at the event, titled “Answering the Iranian People’s Call for Human Rights,” which will be held in the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
The conference’s theme matches NIAC’s strategy of promoting modest democracy measures in Iran as an alternative to policies intended to remove the theocratic government. “The case for war [against the Iranian theocracy] is already being pushed by the ‘pro-war’ elements on the Hill. . . . We can either remain quiet and let them work their magic OR we can promote the alternative to war by emphasizing the importance of and need for human rights,” reads a March 7 e-mail sent by Nobar Elmi, who joined NIAC in October 2010 as the director of community outreach and programming.
In practice, she wrote, “we’re taking steps to ensure human rights is on the table, by doing things such as working to ensure there is an independent U.N. human rights monitor and encouraging the dialogue.” Elmi’s e-mail was written to Peter Khan Zendran, a Rhode Island blogger who argued that NIAC’s focus on democracy might spur stronger action against the Iranian government.
Other speakers at the event include Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison, the co-chair of the House Progressive Caucus. He is an original sponsor of NIAC-backed “Stand with Iranian People Act,” which would impose modest sanctions on companies that sell domestic-security gear to Iran, but also ease work by U.S.-based non-profits in Iran.
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We sure have lowered the bar considering what is treason.
The State Department! Roaches for Allah.
To bad it can’t be a one way ticket for that cry baby!
God knows what we are doing and why and vengeance is His. He will repay.
This is money well spent! (sarc off)
This is consistent with not keeping scores at little kids soccer games. Whatever happened to calling Iran what it is and dealing with their leaders in an appropriate manner?
Calling Peter King, investigation, isle 5.
Reason #1,237 for impeachment. And the beat goes on.
I think you searched a bit too far into the bowels of the internet for this one. The organization, NIAC, is urging the US to work with its partners to condemn the Iranian governments human rights violations. And the US gov’t and Swedish Ambassador are going to use their conference to call for international action that Iran is already complaining about the effort! (http://www.payvand.com/news/11/mar/1094.html)
NIAC also supports targeted sanctions against Iranian gov’t officials. All this makes the accusations in this article look very silly.
Infuriating all of this, especially frosts my flakes regarding Ellison as well.
Msm remain silent, they’re too busy praying the Reactors blow up and kill millions in Japan.
Maybe he’ll was their feet with his tears.
So Ellison is co-chair of the House Progressive Caucus? This caucus has approximately 83 members and was established in 1991 by Ron Dellums, socialist, Lane Evans, socialist, Thomas Andrews, Pete DeFazio, Maxine Waters, madwoman and adherant to Black Liberation Theology, and Bernie Sanders, Socialist. This caucus is “organized around the principles of social and economic justice, a non-discriminatory society, and national priorities which represent the interests of all people, not just the wealthy and powerful.” In a word this is the rhetoric of Socialism. American Socialists have cobbled together an alliance of seemingly disparate interests, such as radical feminism and American Islam, to more or less take over the Democrat Party. That Ellison is the co-chair of the House Socialist Caucus is proof of the alliance between Farrakhan-Cair-following Ellison and American Socialists.
Ellison is no more, or no less than an enemy agent.
Why can’t they also send Da Clinton Bitch, and ask them to keep her? If they insisted, we could maybe throw in a couple of camels…