Last week we brought you a round up of information on the National Iranian-American Council, focusing on their upcoming July 26th “Human Rights” conference at the congressional Rayburn building.

NIAC is opposed to “keeping the military option on the table”, sanctions, or even funding for Iranian democratic activists. All stances which are very agreeable to the Iranian regime. Anything to preserve the status quo and give Ahmadinejad time to consolidate his power. Iranian Scholar Hassan Daioleslam has alleged that the group has regime ties:

 In today’s Frontpage Mag, Kenneth Timmerman takes another shot at NIAC by pointing out just what the Mullahs do with the time NIAC buys them:

If you’ve never witnessed a stoning (and most of us haven’t, I trust), you can get a flavor for the barbarity of this Koranic punishment from a short video clip shot at one of these events.

The fellows in military dress belong to the bassij force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, the thugs and enforcers the regime uses to cow the Iranian population – or, as in this case, to whip up the frenzy of its remaining supporters.

The YouTube version of stoning is mercifully brief. Iranian human rights activist Dr. Manouchehr Ganji sat down with me a few years ago and showed me the full Monty, and it’s not a pretty sight. You see, the rocks have to be just the right size: not too large, so they won’t kill the victim outright, and not too small, as to be harmless.

The video has already been pulled by Dhimmi-tube, but you can get a grasp of the sheer horror of the event just from Timmerman’s description. These are the kinds of human rights violations that NIAC wants to hold as a bargaining chip, to prevent the US from taking ANY action detrimental to the Iranian theocracy.

The goal of the Iranian lobby is “to present human rights as a negotiating item on the engagement table in hopes of getting human rights organizations to argue for Tehran-friendly rapprochement, easing of sanctions and tolerance of a nuclear Iran,” he told me.

“In a nut shell, the lobby’s message is that the more West pressures the regime, the more violent it becomes, hence, lift the pressure.”

There isn’t much time to avert the disgrace NIAC’s human rights farce will bring in the hallowed halls of Congress, but let your representative know how you feel about it.

Bottom Line: As a public education effort, consider asking your Congressman these questions:

Will the Republican Leadership support NIAC’s efforts to book the room on July 26, or encourage Mr. Soros to spring for a room at an actual Motel 6?

Should your congressman be supporting efforts to buy Ahmadinejad more time?

Should we keep his economy chugging along without stronger economic sanctions, lest the Iranian mullahs begin to feel deprived?

If all efforts to assist dissidents and democracy advocates result in their imprisonment, is it NIAC’s position that ineffectual hand-wringing is the only alternative?   

Http://www.congress.org/ to get phone numbers, emails and addresses for your representative.