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NIAC's DC Spring Fundraiser Reception & Dinner
Friday, March 29, 2013
By: Sahar Fahimi
You Are Cordially Invited to NIAC's Spring Fundraiser Reception & Dinner: Strengthening Iranian Americans' Voice in Washington Amid Sanctions and the Threat of War Featuring Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Fomer Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell
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Foreign Policy: Our Myopic Approach to Iran
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
By: Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
When historians of American foreign policy look back a few decades from now, they will shake their heads in wonder at the incompetence of the U.S. effort to deal with Iran. If you don't believe me, you should take a look at a new report from the National Iranian-American Council.
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Report: Why Sanctions On Iran Aren't Working
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
By: Bijan Khajehpour, Reza Marashi, & Trita Parsi (Special Report)
Iran is currently facing the most severe and strictest sanctions ever imposed on a country. Though these measures seek to curb Iranian nuclear ambitions, a recent IAEA report suggests continued nuclear advances by Iran. This begs the question: are sanctions affecting Tehran's nuclear calculus?
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NIAC Member Survey Shows Growing Concern about War and Sanctions
Thursday, October 18, 2012
By: Nobar Elmi - News
Concern about war with Iran has only intensified since our last member survey, and our members overwhelmingly chose to keep preventing war as NIAC's top priority.
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BBC Persian: Who Beats the Drums of War?
Thursday, August 23, 2012
By: BBC Persian
BBC Persian interviews NIAC's President Trita Parsi on the threat of war from Israel and how the United States election plays a role.
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HuffPost Live: Crying Wolf on War
Thursday, August 23, 2012
By: Mike Sacks (HuffPost Live)
Huff Post Live interviews NIAC's Policy Director, Jamal Abdi on the possibility of war with Iran.
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Democracy Now: From Military Threats to Crippling Sanctions
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
By: Amy Goodman (Democracy Now)
U.S.-Israel Posturing on Iran Stokes Fears of War. Democracy Now interviews NIAC's President, Trita Parsi
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Israel's Diplomatic Scare Game
Thursday, August 9, 2012
By: Trita Parsi - Analysis (special to Salon.com)
Like clockwork, another flurry of high-level senior U.S. officials visiting Israel took place this past week. As has become tradition, Iran topped the agenda. And once again, Israeli officials threatened to take unilateral military action unless the U.S. upped the ante on Iran.
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ABC News: Iran Invokes Its 'Axis of Resistance'
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
By: Eleanor Hall (ABC News)
Iran is revealing just how high the stakes have become in the Syrian conflict, by sending its security chief to meet with its key regional ally. ABC interviews NIAC's Reza Marashi.
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Why the UK Embassy in Iran Was Attacked: The Domestic Angle
Friday, December 2, 2011
By: Trita Parsi - Analysis
The disgraceful attack by hardline Basijis against the British embassy in Tehran appears on the surface to be a response to Britain's role in imposing crippling sanctions on Iran. But there is more to this picture.
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The Iranian-American Game of Chicken
Monday, November 14, 2011
By: Reza Marashi - Analysis
An increasingly dangerous cycle of miscalculation, misunderstanding and escalation has fostered an Iranian government view that time is on its side.
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Khamenei's Power Consolidation Gambit
Monday, November 14, 2011
By: Sahar Namazikhah & Reza Marashi
Iran's Supreme Leader has embarked upon a sustained strategy of eliminating political opposition; decreasing turbulence during his reign, and shaping Iran's long-term political development around his rule.
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The Conservative Rise and the Potential Fall of the Presidency
Monday, October 17, 2011
By: Reza Marashi - Analysis
The Supreme Leader's suggestion that Iran's presidency might be eliminated is part of larger undemocratic trend undemocratic trend in Iranian politics where political change has been engineered and managed.
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Experts Discuss U.S. Iran relations at NIAC Leadership Conference
Thursday, October 13, 2011
By: Loren White
As part of its first annual Leadership Conference last week, NIAC hosted an off the record panel for conference attendees featuring key leaders in the academic and political spheres in the United States and Europe working on Iran-U.S. foreign policy issues.
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Iran: The Next Generation
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
By: Reza Marashi and Jason Rezaian - Analysis
For several weeks now, observers and analysts of Iran have been referring to an emerging rift between the Iranian president and the country's Supreme Leader. The recent back-and-forth between Ahmadinejad and Khamenei reflects a deeper generational shift.
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Why sanctions against Iran won't work
Saturday, June 4, 2011
By: Reza Marashi - Analysis
For decision-makers in Tehran, the heart of the matter is how they perceive that the West will (and will not) react to its foreign policy posturing in general and the nuclear question in particular. The Iranian narrative can be summarized as follows: Former President Mohammad Khatami's détente failed, so Iran must now deal with the West from a position of strength.
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The Islamic Republic's Emerging Cyber War
Saturday, April 30, 2011
By: Reza Marashi - Analysis
While foreign-inspired virus attacks command the attention of policymakers and pundits in the West, the Islamic Republic's long-term cyber war strategy is slowly succeeding.
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Subsidy Reform & Regime Resilience in Iran
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
By: Reza Marashi - Analysis
Though still in its infant stages, subsidy reform demonstrates the interrelationship between Iran's economic realities and the government's efforts to remain in control.
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Iran Raises The Stakes: The Istanbul Talks & Iran's Political Psychology
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
By: Reza Marashi - Analysis
The political psychology of talks with the P5+1and fluid facts on the ground throughout the region hardened Iran's stance during talks in Istanbul.
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NIAC Memo: The Turkey-Brazil-Iran deal: Can Washington take 'yes' for an answer?
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
By: Dr. Trita Parsi - Analysis
Foreign Policy Magazine - The Brazilian-Turkish diplomatic breakthrough with Iran has taken Washington by surprise. Clearly, the geopolitical center of gravity has shifted-five years of EU-led negotiations led nowhere while the new emerging powers Brazil and Turkey only needed a few months to produce a breakthrough.
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The Hill: Changing Course on Iran Sanctions
Friday, April 23, 2010
By: Patrick Disney and Lara Friedman - Opinion
The debate over U.S.-Iran policy should not be boiled down to a question of how much more damage we can do. Rather, smart power dictates that the U.S. use every tool available, including those that have been taken off the table, such as lifting certain sanctions.
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NIAC Memo: We Must Not Ignore Human Rights in Iran
Thursday, February 11, 2010
By: Dr. Trita Parsi - Opinion
Now more than ever, the narrow nuclear focus must be set aside and renewed attention given to the state of human rights in Iran. It is literally a matter of life and death.
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NIAC Memo: How Washington Can Help the Greens in Iran
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
By: Alireza Nader and Dr. Trita Parsi
Torn between the fear of ending up on the wrong side of history by being too cautious and the fear of ending up undermining the pro-democracy movement by being too aggressive, Barack Obama's administration is playing a difficult balancing act.
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Analysis: H.R. 4303 - The Stand with the Iranian People Act
Monday, January 25, 2010
By: Patrick Disney - Analysis
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) introduced H.R. 4303, the Stand with the Iranian People Act (SWIPA), to support the Iranian people's democratic movement by ensuring that America's Iran policy imposes pressure on the Iranian government--not the innocent Iranian people.
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NIAC Memo: Ancient Persian Legacy Still Plays Role in Revolutionary Iran
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
By: Prof. R. K. Ramazani - Analysis
The crackdown on protesters on December 27, 2009 in Iran, which killed a number of people, touched off unprecedented criticism of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme leader, who is seen as ruling by divine approval.
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