Thursday, November 15, 2007


Did the National Iranian American Council Commit Fraud?

Michael Rubin: "Trita Parsi, you have yet to answer why NIAC told the Congressionally-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED) that NIAC’s Endowment-funded civil society programs were a success, netting NIAC a couple hundred thousand dollars, all the while condemning all such programs as failures. Trita, you say NIAC is transparent. Keep your word. I pose the queries again: Please clarify whether you mislead Congress in your letter and other representations to it, or mislead NED in your repeated applications for its money to support your Iran civil society training programs. Don’t take the New Republic strategy. The question isn’t going to fade away."