• The Guardian: White House asked the Pentagon for plans to strike Iran – report January 13, 2019The National Iranian American Council (NIAC), a pro-diplomacy advocacy group, issued a statement on the Wall Street Journal report, saying: “This administration takes an expansive view of war authorities and is leaning into confrontation with Iran at a time when there are numerous tripwires for conflict across the region.”
• Newsweek: Iran Slams Pompeo’s Middle East Speech, Says It Will “Mimic” U.S. Human Rights Model “When Hell Freezes Over” January 10, 2019Jamal Abdi, president of the National Iranian American Council, criticized the secretary’s comments as well, saying Pompeo “failed to outline a coherent strategic logic for the Trump administration’s Middle East policy.”
• USA Today: ‘The age of self-inflicted American shame is over,’ Pompeo declares in rebuke of Obama’s policy January 10, 2019Abdi said the Trump administration has “reflexively” backed despotic regimes and simplistically blamed Iran “as the source of all regional ills.” That approach “will succeed at little other than fueling instability,” he said.
• SF Weekly: Slack Deletes Accounts of Iranians Outside Iran December 20, 2018The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) suspects that Slack, like other companies without clear instructions on the Trump administration’s new sanctions, appears to have gone above and beyond out of fear.
• Foreign Policy: A New U.S. Immigration Law Would Hurt Iranians the Most December 20, 2018NIAC sent a letter to corporations that are lobbying for H.R. 392, arguing it will risk creating a monopoly over the green card process and exacerbate the impact of the Trump travel ban for Iranians.

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