Iran’s Spymaster Claims Pro-Regime Agents Operating in D.C., London, Canada

Adam Kredo, freebeacon.com

Image from article, with caption: Iranian intelligence minister Mahmoud Alavi

Claims pro-Iran 'lobby' pushing Tehran's agenda in D.C.

Excerpt:

[T]he Free Beacon has reported during the past several months that dissident organizations are pushing for a formal investigation into the National Iranian American Council, or NIAC, which has long fought against charges that it lobbies on the regime's behalf.

A group of nearly 100 prominent Iranian dissidents working to undermine the regime petitioned Congress in February to investigate NIAC's ties to the Iranian regime and determine if it is actively helping to push a pro-mullah agenda.

"We write to request a congressional hearing on the efforts of Tehran's theocratic regime to influence U.S. policy and public diplomacy toward Iran," the dissidents wrote to Sen. Bob Corker (R., Tenn.) and Rep. Ed Royce (R., Calif.), the heads of Congress' foreign affair committees, according to copies of the letter first reported by the Free Beacon. ...