Statements & Press Releases
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"NIAC welcomes the news that the Treasury Department has licensed Github to offer all of its services to Iranians. This is yet another signal that many interactions between Americans and Iranians serv...
Washington DC – Ryan Costello, Policy Director of the National Iranian American Council, issued the following statement after the Iranian parliament passed a bill mandating gradual but significant n...
If confirmed, the attempted assassination of Iran’s nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is yet another reckless step that appears intended to poison the well for negotiations under a Biden administ...
به دنبال خروج امریکا از برنامه جامع اقدام مشترک (برجام)، ایران توسعه برنامه هسته‌ای خود را از سر گرفت. روزنامه ...
WASHINGTON DC – NIAC President Jamal Abdi issued the following statement regarding a New York Times report that President Trump sought military options to respond to Iran’s nuclear expansion, whic...
Our long, national nightmare is almost over. AP has called the race for Joe Biden and Donald Trump will no longer be President of the United States on Wednesday, January 20, 2021. This news is a ray o...
Washington DC – Jamal Abdi, President of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), issued the following statement after reports of alleged Iranian interference in U.S. elections: "All foreign an...
در چهار سال اخیر که دولت ترامپ سر کار بوده است، شاهد گسترش تبعیض علیه جوامع مهاجر و یک گفتمان به شدت خشن در عرصه...
Over the course of the past four years of the Trump administration, we have seen rising discrimination against immigrant communities and increasingly vicious discourse on the global stage. Iranian Ame...
در سالی که پر بود از چالش‌های بی‌سابقه و اخبار بد، خبر درگذشت استاد محمدرضا شجریان ضایعه‌ای بس ناگوار و ویرا...
In a year filled with exceptional challenges and bad tidings, the news of Mohammad Reza Shajarian’s passing is especially devastating. NIAC offers our deepest condolences to his son, who has carried...
With the unprecedented spectacle that Donald Trump brings to the presidential contest, all eyes are understandably focused on the very top of the ticket. But the contest over which party controls the ...