Iran said this week it would return to the Vienna negotiations by the end of November. This came as a cyber attack shut down Iranian gas stations across the country. Meanwhile, British-Iranian Nazanin...
“If we don’t want to be demonized, if we didn’t want Trump to be blocking our family members, if we don’t want… the politics having to deal with Iran to be… driven by narra...
Raisi in a TV interview called for the other JCPOA parties to show their “seriousness” and demonstrate a “readiness” to lift sanctions. Meanwhile, Abdollahian briefed parliament on the JCPOA a...
This week a senior EU official travelled to Iran and it was agreed Iranian negotiators will soon come to Brussels to review the nuclear file. Meanwhile, tensions between Iran and Azerbaijan are dialin...
While Pride month has become a widely celebrated occasion, the lived experience of the LGBTQ+ community is an everyday affair. For the LGBTQ+ community Pride continues outside of June, along with the ...
“Under this heavy confinement, not just my hair but even my eyebrows have become white,” wrote Siamak Namazi, a dual national of Iran and the U.S. imprisoned in Iran, in a recent letter to Iran’...
Supporting the right of Iranians to communicate freely online, unimpeded by Iranian government censorship or U.S. sanctions, is one of NIAC's top human rights priorities. That is why we are pleased to...
Tensions between Iran and Azerbaijan have flared as each side has conducted war games near their border. Meanwhile, Iran’s foreign ministry has clarified that Iran has no “precondition” for resu...
NIAC sent a letter to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) describing the detrimental impact of sanctions on humanitarian trade with Iran from October 1, 2016 to Se...
Iran’s Foreign Minister said at the UNGA that Iran would return to the Vienna JCPOA talks soon, but did not specify a date. Meanwhile, officials say Iran is now importing American vaccines, reflecti...
Iran has said it will return to the Vienna negotiations this week, amid diplomatic momentum building at the UN General Assembly. In Iran, rapper Toumaj Salehi was released from prison while another pr...
The NIAC Action Board of Directors plays an important role in strategizing, supporting, and scaling up the work of building political power for the Iranian-American community. We encourage applicants ...