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NGO Goes Undercover in Iran to Disclose Sanctions Violators
(Ha'aretz) Yossi Melman - The nonprofit group United Against Nuclear Iran, chaired by former U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman, has close ties to defense officials in the U.S., Germany, Israel and other Western countries. This week the group disclosed that some of its members, posing as businesspeople, attended fairs and conferences in Iran, seeking to find out which companies and businesspeople planned to invest in Iran and thus violate the sanctions regime. Their findings were sent to these companies and businesspeople with a warning to cease their commercial ties with Tehran. Norman Roule, a retired 34-year veteran of the CIA who served from 2008 to 2017 as intelligence manager for Iran at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, told Ha'aretz: "Certainly, millions within Iran would choose a different path for their country, if they could. But it also needs to be recognized that millions of Iranians continue to support the regime."