• Middle East Eye: Analysis: Iranian-Americans in California Split Over Pompeo’s Visit July 19, 2018Jamal Abdi, a policy chief at the National Iranian American Council, a lobby group, went further, accusing the administration of trying to “co-opt the Iranian people to provide legitimacy” for an “Iraq War redux for Iran”.
• Politico: Trump Has Tough Sell Recruiting Iranian-Americans in Campaign Against Tehran July 18, 2018The National Iranian American Council, on the other hand, said its staff appeared to have been blackballed by the administration and that it might stage protests against Pompeo’s speech. The organization, a major defender of the Iran nuclear deal whose leaders have vociferously criticized Trump, has not gone so far ...
• WBEZ’s Worldview: U.S. Excluded from Iran Nuclear Deal Summit in Vienna July 6, 2018“Foreign ministers from the remaining signatories met in Vienna today to work around continuing U.S. efforts to kill the deal, but U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, was missing. For analysis, we turn to Trita Parsi, founder and president of the National Iranian American Council.”
• The Guardian: Trump Makes Unfounded Claim that Obama Gave Citizenship to 2,500 Iranians July 3, 2018Trita Parsi, the head of the National Iranian American Council, said: “That a cleric in Iran is throwing out complete conspiracy theories is sadly normal.”
• New York Times: Trump’s Travel Ban: How it Works and Who is Affected July 1, 2018“The problem is that with the students knowing that they will never be allowed to work in the U.S., most of them will essentially choose not to come here in the first place,” said Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, which strongly opposed the travel ban.

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