Iran: Its Foreign Ministry's Agents of Influence in Sweden and the US
by Nima Gholam Ali Pour • July 22, 2025 at 5:00 am
The "Iran Experts Initiative" (IEI)... was first proposed in 2014 by... a member of the internal think tank of Iran's Foreign Ministry, the "Institute for Political and International Studies" (IPIS).
Ali Vaez and Ariane Tabatabai... were also members of the IEI.
How can all these prominent think tanks and influential experts enter into cooperation with IPIS, which — apart from being an integral part of the Iranian regime — organized a Holocaust conference in 2006 featuring Holocaust deniers such as David Duke and the neo-Nazi German National Democratic Party (NPD)?
The purpose of the IEI for the Iranian regime has been to establish a number of reputable and knowledgeable contacts who support the idea of a "nuclear deal" -- which, in the long run, means that the regime in Iran will get nuclear weapons -- and to promote Iran's perspective on this nuclear deal and its desired structure in Western Europe and North America.
[T]he Swedish Security Service considers Iran to be one of the three countries that pose the greatest threat to Sweden.
Does anyone seriously believe the mullahs' lies that they do not want to build nuclear weapons?
If the mullahs truly wanted peace, they would dismantle their support for terrorist organizations, abandon their ambitions to build nuclear weapons, stop pouring resources into fueling conflicts in neighboring countries, and cease spreading hatred toward the Western world.
The door must be closed to these lobbyists for the Iranian regime.... The mullahs' regime is an enemy of the West, but the mullahs' lobbyists must be treated as enemies, too.
On January 31, Sweden's TV4 reported that leaked documents from Iran's Foreign Ministry linked Iran expert Rouzbeh Parsi, head of the Middle East and North Africa Program at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, to a network initiated by Iran's Foreign Ministry, with the aim of increasing the country's influence in the West.
Since 75% of the funding for the Swedish Institute of International Affairs comes from the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden's Foreign Minister, Maria Malmer Stenergard, demanded more information regarding these allegations. As there was criticism and questions from several parties in the Swedish Parliament, the Institute launched an investigation to examine the allegations against Parsi.
