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While we were pleased when the Biden administration announced its review of U.S. sanctions policies earlier this year, the review released yesterday only sets out a series of principles that are suppo...
The sad truth is that sanctions are reflexively imposed on adversaries and competitors with little to no regard for their harsh humanitarian impacts or whether they are advancing U.S. interests. For I...
We applaud President Biden’s announcement that the U.S. will seek a major new global vaccination effort. We urge President Biden to put his words into action and to ensure citizens and refugees of t...
Update (9/22/21): We are happy to hear reports today that Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi was released on bail on September 21st. He should never have been arrested in the first place, and he, like all I...
Click here to read this in English. پس از دستگیری توماج صالحی خواننده رپ ایرانی به دست نیروهای امنیتی ایران، شورای ملی ایرانی...
The restoration of Diversity Visas that were lost for Iranians and other nationals barred under Donald Trump's Muslim Ban is an important step towards undoing the lingering damage from that bigoted po...
Ryan Costello, Policy Director with the National Iranian American Council, issued the following statement after the Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Mohammad Eslami, and the Dire...
The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan is a tragedy that puts countless lives at risk, including women, human rights defenders and journalists. The priority for the Biden administration and all nations m...
Raisi’s ascension represents a near-total consolidation of power by the Islamic Republic’s most theocratic and insular elements. If past is precedent, these forces will seek to cement their ideolo...
Six years after the conclusion of the JCPOA, the U.S. and Iran are at a critical inflection point. A swift, compliance-for-compliance return appears to still be on the table and can be concluded with ...
The House Appropriations committee should be applauded for taking a key step to right a wrong today. Under the Trump administration, thousands of individuals were selected for diversity visas only to ...
The ascension of Raisi to the presidency will be widely viewed as a victory for hardliners in Iran and the U.S. who seek confrontation over conciliation between the U.S. and Iran. The authorities of t...