Columbus, OH – The Columbus Dispatch published a cartoon last week depicting Iran as a sewer on a map of the Middle East with cockroaches crawling out of it. Dokhi Fassihian, member of NIAC's Board of Directors, immediately contacted the newspaper on behalf of NIAC to protest the racist nature of the cartoon. Her letter to the Dispatch was published by the Ohio newspaper on September 8. Click here to read letter.
Back to topSeptember 9, 2007