What is the relationship between 'New Horizon' and the case of 'an American spying for Iran'?

On the morning of Saturday, February 11, 2012, the office of Ayatollah Hadi Barikbin, the Friday prayer leader of Qazvin, had a special guest: Monika Alfred Witt, a U.S. citizen. Ms. Witt had traveled to Qazvin to participate in the conference 'Hollywoodism and Global Awakening' and, on the sidelines of this conference, visited the office of the Friday prayer leader, announcing that she had converted to Islam and chosen the name 'Nargis.' The organizer of the 'Hollywoodism and Islamic Awakening' conference was the 'New Horizon' Institute, headed by Nader Talebzadeh. The New Horizon Institute held its first conference in 2010 titled 'Hollywoodism and Cinema.' The third and final session of this conference was held in 2012. Throughout these conferences, the media's focus was on 'Sean Stone,' the son of Oliver Stone, but it has now become clear that the host's attention was on Monika Witt, a woman who wanted to be a major whistleblower against the U.S., like Edward Snowden. Monika Witt, who later chose the name 'Fatemeh Zahra' instead of 'Nargis,' is now reported by U.S. officials to have been recruited through the New Horizon Institute by Iranian intelligence in 2012 and has been living in Tehran since August 2013. In addition to the New Horizon Institute, she has also been in contact with the 'Net Pursuit of Samavat' Institute and is accused of participating in an internet espionage operation. The New Horizon Institute has also collaborated with the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for security information. The website of the New Horizon Institute does not mention 'Monika Witt' on its special page introducing its American guests. This page lists 58 other Americans who, like Monika Witt, have been guests of the 'New Horizon' and, according to Talebzadeh, some of them have had high-level intelligence cooperation with the U.S. Talebzadeh has organized two other conferences on Hollywoodism and six international conferences under the title 'New Horizon,' the latest of which was held in May this year with the support and presence of Ebrahim Raisi at the Astan Quds Razavi. Raisi's participation was a response to Talebzadeh's electoral efforts in the 2017 presidential election, where he became a full-fledged advocate for Raisi and wrote about him in Western media. Talebzadeh has invited hundreds of guests from Italy, France, England, Sweden, Russia, Canada, Belgium, Spain, Germany, and others to the numerous expensive ceremonies he has held. The publication of 45 book titles, most of which are against the U.S. and Israel, has been another program of his institute. Guests of this institute travel to various cities in Iran and give speeches during their stay. He has also launched the 'Hussein, International Love' campaign, which takes foreign guests to the Arbaeen pilgrimage. Nader Talebzadeh, who considers himself a pioneer of public diplomacy and soft warfare, is not alone in this path. The 'Ofogh' television network, which Talebzadeh helped establish, covers its activities. The 'Owj' organization and the 'Narrative Foundation' are also his collaborators. The budget for Owj, which has now become one of the giants of Iranian cinema and is the main provider for the Ofogh network, is funded by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the Narrative Foundation is affiliated with the Basij organization. According to U.S. officials, the New Horizon Institute is also financially supported by the IRGC. This vast network, which is primarily focused on cinema and television, has seen significant growth in the past decade, with its affiliated managers dominating various television networks, financing the most expensive films in Iran, and the 'Ammar' and 'Resistance Film' festivals aiming to rival and even replace the Fajr Film Festival. In April this year, following reports about the cinematic activities of the Owj Institute, Mohammad Ghochani, the editor of the 'Sazandegi' newspaper, used the term 'Islamic Hollywood' to describe this generation. He wrote that this generation is engaged in the 'most humane and ethical discourse' on subjects such as 'defending humanity, family, homeland, and faith.' However, these characteristics do not quite fit this generation, but the precise embodiment of this phrase can be identified as 'Nader Talebzadeh,' who has dreamed for decades of creating a rival for Hollywood. Nader Talebzadeh, known as 'Haj Nader,' and his wife Zeynab Mahna, who are now on the U.S. sanctions list, lived in the U.S. from the ages of 16 to 26. Zeynab Mahna is a close friend of Marzieh Hashemi, an American journalist for Press TV, who was recently detained in connection with the Monika Witt espionage case. Media Benjamin, an American activist who made headlines a few months ago for her attempt to disrupt a press conference for Brian Hook, is also part of the network of friends and invitees of Nader Talebzadeh and his wife. Nader Talebzadeh, now 65 years old, returned to Iran three months before the 1979 revolution. He is a prolific, articulate, and skilled documentary filmmaker whose command of English and experience living in the West provided him with an excellent opportunity for growth in television after the revolution. He took advantage of this opportunity and trained many students who have now become the fabric of his network. His father, Brigadier General Mansour Talebzadeh, was a major general and the special adjutant to Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and previously played a role in organizing the coup of August 19, 1953, and, according to some accounts, the reward for this role was his promotion from colonel to brigadier general. Mansour Talebzadeh was sidelined by the court in 1964 due to his friendship with one of the Shah's opponents. Talebzadeh has also repeatedly denied his father's role in the coup of August 19 and praised him as an opponent of the Shah. However, Talebzadeh's praises of his father did not help, and in 1989, the 'Executive Headquarters of Imam's Command' confiscated his father's property and garden in Karaj. Talebzadeh has stated that he received orders from Ayatollah Khamenei, but it was of no use, and their property was lost. Despite the futility of Talebzadeh's efforts to save his father's inheritance, it seems he has succeeded in establishing himself among the Hezbollah community. He says about his return to Iran that he saw a picture of Ayatollah Khomeini in the Times newspaper a few months before the revolution and 'suddenly reversed' and decided to return to Iran. However, his stay in Iran did not last long, and he left again to study in the U.S., but the event of the seizure of the U.S. embassy by revolutionary students motivated him to return. In his first documentary experiences, he made a documentary about the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Iran and has been involved with the issue of America ever since. Talebzadeh, who once collaborated with Morteza Avini, the legendary figure of revolutionary artists in the 1980s, has tried in the last decade to be the new revolutionary generation of Avini, yet he is generally more similar to Hassan Abbasi than Morteza Avini. He has not lacked comments of the type made by Hassan Abbasi, including that 'the Pentagon has introduced a virus into the Zamzam water to destroy the faith of Muslims' and that 'many Western intellectuals are seeking asylum in Iran.' He, who made a documentary about the collapse of America three decades ago, continues to center his speeches on the collapse of America, like many politicians of the Islamic Republic. In 2011, Talebzadeh tested his chances of becoming a politician by running for the 9th Parliament on the list of the Steadfast Front but did not win. He, who was present in the Ammar Headquarters with this faction, became a founding member of the 'Popular Front of Islamic Revolution Forces (JAMNA)' in 2017 and, along with the Steadfast Front, tried to get Ebrahim Raisi elected but failed. He has also used his documentary work for elections, producing a campaign film for Saeed Jalili in 2013 and an anti-Mir Hossein Mousavi film in 2009. In the last decade, as apocalyptic literature has grown in Iran, he has seen the opportunity to pursue his anti-Western ideas more favorably; the New Horizon Institute can be seen as a product of this environment. An environment that has always been controversial and ambiguous, much like Talebzadeh's own life. Since spring 2016, when he suffered from heart disease, Talebzadeh has become less active, a prolonged illness that he wished to introduce as a biological assassination, but gradually his condition improved, and the rumor did not gain traction. The National Security Commission of Parliament also reported that no evidence of biological assassination was found, and the case was closed. The most controversial incident in his life, however, was revealed two years ago by his student, Hossein Dehbaashi. In 1992, Talebzadeh had traveled to Bosnia with Ahmad Jannati. According to Dehbaashi, Talebzadeh intended to plant a bomb inside his camera under the pretext of interviewing Radovan Karadžić, the leader of the Bosnian Serbs, and to carry out a suicide attack to kill Karadžić, but this operation was canceled due to Ayatollah Khamenei's opposition. A plan that Hossein Dehbaashi described as 'faithful and humanitarian.'