SMEAR CAMPAIGN

two-part hit piece in Tablet magazine
machinations of the “Iran lobby”
Lee Smith
former reporter for Bill Kristol’s Weekly Standard and a current fellow at the neoconservative Hudson Institute
first piece
targets Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett
second
Trita Parsi and the National Iranian American Council
Leveretts
underestimating the Green Movement’s prospects of succes
they are
pposed to U.S. military action against Iran
Parsi
continuation
silencing any insufficiently hawkish Iranian voices
that Parsi is thin-skinned
for identifying
antagonists as neoconservatives
from Eli Lake to Michael Rubin to Reuel Marc Gerecht
bases his critique
Commentary
Daniel Pipes’s Middle East Quarterly
Iranians
Hassan Daioleslam
Daioleslam
associate of
Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK)
accuses Parsi and the Leveretts of being Iranian agents,
relyin
on Michael Rubin, a longtime shill for
Ahmed Chalabi
neocon agitprop
Tablet
new breed of Jewish cultural journals
“a new read on Jewish life”
Like its peers Jewcy and Heeb
relentlessly progressive

domestic politics
But foreign policy
conventional and
hawkish
Adam Kirsch, Seth Lipsky, and Michael Weiss