Trita Parsi of the National Iranian American Council used to have no sympathy for Iran's Green Movement until he figured out that pretend sympathy could be used to hurt Iran's opposition organization MEK.
The expression "crocodile tears", denoting an insincere display of grief, comes from an ancient anecdote that crocodiles weep in order to lure their prey, or that they cry for the victims they are eating. In Washington circles these days Trita Parsi, the president of NIAC, sheds tears for Iran's Green Movement, a movement that for the past three years, he has relentlessly tried to argue for its failure and demise.
These days Trita Parsi is concerned that removing the Mujahedin-e-Khalgh (MEK) and the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) from the State Department's terrorist list will create competition for the Green Movement, and will therefore weaken it. Parsi's argument is now embodied in numerous articles, videos, op-eds, petitions, letters, phone campaigns, tweets, and Facebook messages, by Trita Parsi and his associates inside and outside NIAC. In one of their latest statements signed by NIAC's handy expert group (individuals from Scotland, England, Canada, Iran and the US - many of whom have publically known financial or political ties with the ruling regime in Iran), they once more claim that "Removing the MEK from the Foreign Terrorist Organization list and misconstruing its lack of democratic bona fides and support inside Iran will have harmful consequences on the legitimate, indigenous Iranian opposition." This argument is not only legally baseless, but is morally unjust. The same line is broadcast by NIAC rank and file in their intense campaign against MEK. Jamal Abdi, Trita Parsi's assistant in NIAC recently wrote an article titled: "Why Delisting the MEK Threatens Iran's Democracy Movement". Shawn Amoei, another NIAC "expert" working for Trita Parsi considers delisting MEK to be "Silencing the Moderate Middle". Are the tears that Trita Parsi and other NIAC folks shedding for the Green Movement in Iran real?
Trita Parsi's green resurrection has been well studied. If it was not for his paving the way for the many American lives lost by Iranian backed terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the many Iranian lives lost in Ashraf and in Iranian prisons, his green resurrection would be the makings of an amusing comedy. Afterall, Trita Parsi and NIAC have spent the last 3 years claiming that the Green Movement is dead. There is no hope for regime change. Ahmadinejad is not that bad of a man. Iran has no ill intentions in its nuclear aspirations. Israel and the US must accept Iran's hegemony in the region, and the only way to deal with Iran is to cave in to the mullahs' wishes and remove the sanctions. But do not take my words for it. Read Trita Parsi's articles for yourselves:
** In his article called "The End of the Beginning" , making a mockery of the mass demonstrations in the streets of Tehran which were commonly regarded as the "beginning of the end" of the ayatollahs' rule, Trita Paris wrote: "Iran's popular uprising, which began after the June 12 election, may be heading for a premature ending. In many ways, the Ahmadinejad
