Iranian-American lobbyist Siamak Namazi was arrested in Tehran according to sources close to him. Namazi is a dual-citizen of the United States and Iran; he also happens to be an instrumental puppet-master of the Iran nuclear deal, working behind the scenes with the Obama White House.
Ironically, Namazi’s rapprochement with the Islamic Republic left him vulnerable to the tentacles of totalitarian theocracy. The world economic consultant purportedly maintains ties with the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), an influential Washington lobbying group that has been prodding the White House for decades to fundamentally overhaul its diplomatic policy with the isolated Shiite state. “This Iran lobby…has become a staunch institutional ally of the White House selling the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the nuclear deal is known,” reportsThe Daily Beast. “But while NIAC has done the heavy-lifting—the ad-buying, the leafleting, and congressional meet-and-greets, all designed to sell lawmakers on the Iran deal—its political efforts also underwrite the economic interests of one very well connected but low-profile Iranian family, the Namazis, who played a key role as intellectual architects of NIAC.”
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