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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/20...n/#more-770033

Here Trita is, for example, condemning the American melting pot and arguing instead that Iranians in America must resist assimilation. Why Parsi believes that celebration of cultural identity and the embrace of what America stands for are diametrically opposed is beyond me.

And, while I have differences with some of Iran analyst Ken Timmerman’s work, Trita’s approach to it is noxious. Here he writes to Timmerman, complaining of Timmerman’s advocacy for a tougher European stance against the Islamic Republic’s support of terrorism:

It is quite clear that your intentions are the security of U.S. and Israeli lives- not Iranians. It is just unbelievable that an American thinks Iranians are so stupid that they would buy your crap. You are claiming to safeguard Iranian lives but at the same time you are supporting the d’Amato bill that will cause immense suffering for ordinary Iranians in Iran. Your organisation is nothing else but a facade, a facade to make it seem as if Iranians support the U.S. and Israel’s stance towards the IRI [Islamic Republic of Iran]. By your name, I suspect that you are a Jew. Now I don’t know if that is the case, but I really wouldn’t be surprised if that would be the case. It is not unusual that Israelis run their business under the safety of an American flag.
If supporting sanctions meant to undercut Iran’s nuclear program makes one guilty of dual loyalty, then perhaps Parsi believes most of the Congress during the Clinton administration were guilty. Then again, the reason for Parsi’s frustration was he did not–and perhaps still does not—believe the Islamic Republic harbors any nuclear ambitions:

There is no proof what so ever for Iran’s nuclear ambition. the IAEA just cleared Iran’s nuclear programme for the third time this decade last week. You have been reading too much AIPAC propaganda!
AIPAC propaganda? In Parsi’s world view, that organization must have its tentacles everywhere. Certainly, it seems NIAC’s founder harbors quite conspiratorial views about why the United States (and the larger world) maintains concerns about Iran’s ambitions.
Trita Parsi’s feeling toward Iran becomes clear, however, in another posting:
More than 1 million people died in an unjust war, but they still died for Iran. They died for You and me. They died for the fact that another beautiful Iranian child could be born and be called Shirin or Darius. We should never forget this, especially we Iranians outside Iran. Our brothers and sisters did not die for us so we could marry an American and call our child Betty-Sue or Joey, they did not die so we could speak English to our children. WE OWE IRAN OUR LIVES, once you realize that you exist BECAUSE of your nation you will also realize that if YOU leave your nation YOUR own children wont really be alive since they dont wont have a nation, they wont have a past and hence THEY WONT HAVE A FUTURE. There is no substitute for Iran! There is a reason why all my letters end with ZENDE BAD IRAN! (long live Iran)