The following are NIAC’s immediate takeaways from on weekend’s sabotage at the Natanz enrichment facility in Iran, which threatens to upend recent diplomatic progress toward restoring the JCPOA....
While the politics of negotiating with Iran can be fraught and heated, the clear nonproliferation benefits that would be gained by restoring the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) are not in d...
Assal, Sina, and Mana sat down with Professor John Ghazvinian, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Middle East Center, to discuss his new book: America and Iran: A History 1720 to the Present...
This week, reports suggested that Israel has been attacking Iranian ships since 2019. And, U.S. and Iranian officials continue to trade escalating barbs over the JCPOA and questions remain over frozen...
Join us for a conversation with policymakers, Internet freedom advocates, and tech industry leaders on the policies and actions the new administration and the tech industry can adopt to ensure the U.S...
This week, President Biden ordered the first military strikes of his presidency when he authorized airstrikes against Shia militias in Syria. Also, the IAEA and Iran came to a “technical understandi...
We are concerned that President Biden’s first instinct when it comes to regional security in the Middle East appears to be to reach for military options instead of diplomacy. President Trump proved ...
This week, a key figure in Iran's security establishment signaled a potential change in the country’s nuclear calculations. Also, Iran further reduced its compliance in the nuclear deal and has deta...
This week, Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif set out a potential path for a JCPOA return. Also, President Biden plans to halt U.S. support for “offensive operations” in Yemen. Please see a our...
Washington, D.C. - A mutual compliance-for-compliance return to the JCPOA is now the official position of the new Biden administration and has slowly become the consensus position among its allies in ...
Washington, D.C. - Jamal Abdi, President of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), issued the following statement on the Biden administration’s appointment of Rob Malley as Special Envoy to I...
If the last four years have been a case for anything, it is how not to conduct U.S. policy towards Iran. Since the Trump administration withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or...