Category: Timeline Stories

All timeline stories.

NIAC hosted a panel on sanctions with Iran experts that featured Sina Toossi, NIAC’s senior research analyst, Tara Sepehri Far, a researcher on Iran at the Human Rights Watch, and Dina Esfandiar...

NIAC’s Senior Research Fellow Dr. Assal Arad wrote a piece for Newsweek on the hostage crisis and its effect on U.S.-Iran relations today....

NIAC’s Communications Director Mana Mostatabi wrote a piece for Instick on republican senators letter to the Department of Justice attacking NIAC and their work. Her article explores this letter...

NIAC’s Communications Director Mana Mostatabi wrote a piece for VICE on her story as an Iranian-American and how the fears she grew up will be passed down to the next generation....

NIAC’s Policy Director Ryan Costello wrote a piece for the National Interest on the timeline of U.S. foreign policy decisions, specifically in relation to the Iran deal, under a Biden administra...

NIAC’s Policy Director Ryan Costello wrote a piece for Responsible Statecraft on the implications of Trump’s connection to the killing of Iranian major-general Qassem Soleimani and Congres...

NIAC hosted a webinar exploring the economic, political, and human rights situation in Iran amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Iranian-American journalist Negar Mortazavi moderated the webinar, which feature...

NIAC’s Senior Research Analyst Sina Toossi wrote a piece for foreign policy on how Trump’s so-called maximum pressure campaign has empowered hard-line figures in Tehran, marginalizing thos...

NIAC’s Senior Research Analyst Sina Toossi wrote a piece for Foreign Affairs on how US max pressure policy and pandemic pressure has consolidated the hard-liners power in Iran....

NIAC’s Senior Research Fellow Dr. Assal Rad wrote a piece for Newsweek on the Iran War Powers Resolution and the implications of Trump’s decision to veto a bipartisan anti-war effort....

NIAC spotlighted the tragedy of Navid Afkari, an Iranian wrestling-champion who was executed by Iranian authorities suddenly and in secret. This injustice is one among many that we have continued to s...

NIAC Action and 15 other grassroots groups sent a letter to the House of Representatives outlining steps the next Chair of the House of Foreign Affairs Committee should take to champion a U.S. return ...