The
Shady Family Behind America’s Iran Lobby. This Iran lobby, publicly represented
by the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), has become a staunch
institutional ally of the White House selling the Joint Comprehensive Plan of
Action, as the nuclear deal is known. But while NIAC has done the heavy-lifting—the
ad-buying, the leafleting, and Congressional meet-and-greets, all designed to
sell lawmakers on the Iran deal—its political efforts also underwrite the
economic interests of one very well connected but low-profile Iranian family,
the Namazis, who played a key role as intellectual architects of NIAC. Before
you make up your mind about the Iran deal, “study” this article & its
supporting documents -- http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/15/the-shady-family-behind-america-s-iran-lobby.html
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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