Iran has poured cold water on US efforts to establish a back-door presence in Iran by opening a branch of a US-based think tank in the capital of the Islamic Republic.
Relations between America and Iran were severed in the aftermath of the overthrow of the US-backed shah in 1979 and the Islamic Republic regularly condemns the world's richest country as a "Great Satan."
But the closing months of President George W Bush's tenure has seen increasing efforts by the White House to create a landmark presence in the country.
As attempts to create a US special interests section in Tehran appear to have stalled, Washington viewed an application by the American-Iranian Council to open a satellite office in Tehran as an alternative route to forging closer ties to Iranian citizens.
The body is based at Princeton University and has links to a number of former US officials and diplomats. It is headed by Houshang Amirahmadi, an Iranian-born academic who lives in the United States. Mr Amirahmadi has made several trips to Iran to pursue the project and has been granted a one-year exemption by the US Foreign Exchange Controls regime to fund his plan.
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My Comment:
Relations between America and Iran were severed in the aftermath of the overthrow of the US-backed shah in 1979 and the Islamic Republic regularly condemns the world's richest country as a "Great Satan."
But the closing months of President George W Bush's tenure has seen increasing efforts by the White House to create a landmark presence in the country.
As attempts to create a US special interests section in Tehran appear to have stalled, Washington viewed an application by the American-Iranian Council to open a satellite office in Tehran as an alternative route to forging closer ties to Iranian citizens.
The body is based at Princeton University and has links to a number of former US officials and diplomats. It is headed by Houshang Amirahmadi, an Iranian-born academic who lives in the United States. Mr Amirahmadi has made several trips to Iran to pursue the project and has been granted a one-year exemption by the US Foreign Exchange Controls regime to fund his plan.
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My Comment:
As attempts to create a US special interests section in Tehran appear to have stalled, Washington viewed an application by the American-Iranian Council to open a satellite office in Tehran as an alternative route to forging closer ties to Iranian citizens.
The body is based at Princeton University and has links to a number of former US officials and diplomats. It is headed by Houshang Amirahmadi, an Iranian-born academic who lives in the United States. Mr Amirahmadi has made several trips to Iran to pursue the project and has been granted a one-year exemption by the US Foreign Exchange Controls regime to fund his plan.
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My Comment: The Mullah's biggest fear. American liberal academics running around Tehran polluting childrens minds. LOL.
I hope that the American-Iranian Council continues to try to open a satellite office in Tehran. Ideas are necessary to provide the base in order to defeat the mullahs and have them removed from government .... I guess some of the Mullahs know that.
The body is based at Princeton University and has links to a number of former US officials and diplomats. It is headed by Houshang Amirahmadi, an Iranian-born academic who lives in the United States. Mr Amirahmadi has made several trips to Iran to pursue the project and has been granted a one-year exemption by the US Foreign Exchange Controls regime to fund his plan.
Read more ....
My Comment: The Mullah's biggest fear. American liberal academics running around Tehran polluting childrens minds. LOL.
I hope that the American-Iranian Council continues to try to open a satellite office in Tehran. Ideas are necessary to provide the base in order to defeat the mullahs and have them removed from government .... I guess some of the Mullahs know that.