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Friday, April 19, 2013

Predatory Lawsuit Rebounds Back on Iranian Front Group

April 18, 2013 By Sam Nunberg

Reprinted from The Legal ProjectEditor’s note: In a great victory for the effort to expose Iranian influence in the U.S., the Legal Project, an initiative of the Middle East Forum, has just announced that a critic stands to be awarded a substantial sum for the cost of legal defense incurred during the course of an abusive lawsuit initiated by the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). In hopes of burying writer Hassan Daioleslam in litigation expenses for revealing NIAC’s work as a lobbying agent for the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Council embarked on a protracted and frivolous legal battle against Mr. Daioleslam. Justice, however, was ultimately done.  Below is the Legal Project’s announcement on the court’s decision. 

Seeking to “hit him hard,” the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) and acting president Trita Parsi brought a frivolous defamation lawsuit against a critic.  Now they face a $183,480.09 fine to his legal defense.  On April 8th D.C. District Court Judge John D. Bates ordered this huge penalty because of the abuses which NIAC and Parsi’s perpetrated for over two years during discovery (pre-trial phase where parties exchange evidence) in their nuisance suit brought against Hassan Daioleslam, an Iranian immigrant and editor of the Iranian American Forum….To Read More…..

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