Hassan Daioleslam
Hassan Daioleslam is an independent writer and Iran Analyst. He is well published and has appeared as an expert guest in the Voice of America-TV as well as other Persian media. Daioleslam has three decades of history of political activism and political scholarly analysis.
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Articles by Hassan Daioleslam
September 17, 2009
Gary Sick, one of the most ardent advocates of rapprochement with the Iranian regime for the past 30 years has made a heart breaking decision: he will not meet with Ahmadinejad when he comes to New York in late September. What a change of heart! Sick writes:1
"Several colleagues have asked me if I...
August 24, 2009
The uprising in Iran has taken many by surprise. However, for Trita Parsi, it supersedes surprise and borders on total disarray. He is the president of NIAC (National Iranian American Council). The governmental press in Tehran labeled NIAC the Iranian lobby in the US.1
To understand Mr. Parsi´s tr...
June 18, 2009
Now, in 2009, after a large dose of the American good-will gestures and friendly overtures, the Iranian regime has once again imposed Ahmadinejad upon its own nation and the world for the second time. It is predictable that the same "Iran experts" would probably blame Obama for not being generous enough towards the Mullahs.
May 03, 2009
Over the past four months, the Obama administration has been sending good will signals to the Iranian regime and has confirmed its policy of overture toward Tehran. Obama´s Nowrouz message combined with the entry of two well known Iranian-American experts into the administration, illustrates this tr...
March 20, 2009
Co-Written with Keyvan Kaboli
On March 5th, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former US National Security advisor under President Carter testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee elaborating on the U.S. policy toward a nuclear Iran. In his testimony, Brzezinski told the Senate committee tha...
February 16, 2009
Mohammad Khatami's recent candidacy for presidency illustrates Mullahs masterful art in selling an archaic political system as an example of good governance and indigenous democracy. The United States has been so far one of the prime consumers of this Iranian "democratic" masquerade
February 04, 2009
The Iranian regime's role in fueling radicalism in the Middle East and its part of responsibility for the recent war in Gaza and the misery and heavy casualty of its innocent people, merits studious and objective scrutiny by the experts. Nevertheless, the pro-Iranian advocates in Washington have ta...
January 26, 2009
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University will be hosting a two-day conference1 on the theme of "The Iranian Revolution: Thirty Years" on the weekend of February 7-8th, 2009. Judging by the selection of speakers and considering Rutgers' past activities, we could predict another con...
December 12, 2008
the cost has been added confusion in the US policy towards Iran, a climate of misinformation and misrepresentation of Iran related facts in the US congress, and empowerment of a web of Iranian influence in America. This in turn has meant more suffering for the Iranian people, higher casualties for the American forces in the region, .and the scary prospect of the nuclear mullahs.
November 18, 2008
• Were the experts told by Trita Parsi that the lion's share of the report was already published by Trita Parsi as the sole author?
• As the report was widely distributed to the media, were they told that the material in it is not that timely and has already been published a year earlier?
The ...
November 12, 2008
After several months of discussions, a group of Iranian Americans finally converged and founded the "Progressive American-Iranian Committee" (PAIC). (http://www.iranian-americans.com/ )
This new organization is particularly focused on counteracting the Iranian regime's web of influence in the US. L...
September 24, 2008
Co-written wit Keyvan Kaboli
On September 25th 2008, five American religious groups will host the Iranian president Mahmood Ahmadinejad, as they did last year during his 2007 visit to the UN. 1
It is safe to assume that the purpose of the dinner won´t be a group interfaith prayer session....
July 15, 2008
The recent parody of presidential election in Zimbabwe has caused disgust and disappointment in the world. Mugabe's fiasco has initiated the United Nations to intervene and condemn this sham.
If Mugabe had followed the Iranian regime's model of "democracy" not only his sham would have never been ...
June 18, 2008
National Iranian American Council (NIAC) and its president Trita Parsi have arranged to receive congressional appropriated funds from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) through an expedited process. They have spent these funds on trivial activities aimed at enhancing false-flag Iranian NGOs...
June 09, 2008
An Iranian Embassy in Boston
While McCain and Obama are dueling whether they should engage or contain Iran, the world is waking up to the Iranian regime´s proxies infiltrating Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Gaza. We are out there putting out the forest fire with our tea cups, and mulla...
April 05, 2008
Mohammad Parvin and Hassan Daioleslam
Senator Dianne Feinstein is announced as the keynote speaker of an upcoming event in Capitol Hill on US-Iran relations.1 (April 6th) Trita Parsi, the president of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) will moderate the conference. Parsi was the politi...
April 02, 2008
On March 21, 2008, the U.S. Commerce Department´s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced its decision to penalize three Iranian-connected companies as "they knowingly exported three U.S. origin aircraft to Iran in violation of the Export Administration Regulations ("EAR"), and are pre...
March 11, 2008
Since its release in December 2007, the National intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iranian nuclear program has become the subject of political debate and fierce discussions. Much has been told about its negative impacts on US and international unity to pressure the Iranian regime.
Missing from the deb...
March 03, 2008
In the aftermath of National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran, the question of how to deal with Iran´s nuclear ambitions has become the center of debate among the experts. Dr. Gary Samore, vice President and Director of Studies of Council on Foreign Relations, has given a series of insig...
December 19, 2007
In the past year, Iran has emerged as the main concern for United States foreign policy. In the aftermath of Iraq war, the United States is blamed for not pursuing diplomatic means in dealing with Iran. Much is said and written about the lost opportunity of dialogue and settling differences with I...
October 17, 2007
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addressing the Qods Day (Jerusalem Day) celebration, which was commemorated on October 5 in Iran, suggested the settlement of Israeli Jews in big lands like Alaska or Canada. Evidently, the more the Iranian regime is confronted with international pressure over its nucl...
October 01, 2007
In 2006, the Iran’s nuclear dossier was referred to the UN Security Council inaugurating a new era of confrontation between the clerical rulers and the international community. To counter the diplomatic pressure on Tehran, a new advocacy and PR group namely “Campaign Against Sanctions and Milit...
October 01, 2007
A cursory examination of Farsi web sites, blogs and chat rooms clearly shows the profound elation of the Iranians from the president Bullinger's introductory remarks about the mullah’s “petty dictator”.
After one day of silence, the Iranian authorities started to show their anger and disbelief ov...
September 21, 2007
Why Does Columbia host Ahmadinejad?
Mohammad Parvin and Hassan Daioleslam
Iran's President Mahmood Ahmadinejad is scheduled to speak at Columbia University on Monday September 24th. This arrangement is not accidental. The event would have not been possible without the tireless and focused...
August 23, 2007
A Personal Note: I wholeheartedly believe that a US war against Iran will be a catastrophe of unbelievable dimensions. It equally troubles me to see that Tehran’s lobbyists and ayatollahs’ advocates disguise their patronage for mullahs as anti-war pursuit. Their disinformation campaign is bringin...
August 01, 2007
Foreword: The policy of United States on Iran over the past decade has been amalgamated with confusion and shortsightedness. This is not accidental. A key factor in shaping this policy has been a disinformation campaign by the pro-Iranian circles. A leading champion of this propaganda crusade is the...