While by all accounts nuclear negotiations with Iran are making serious progress, several reports over the past week have indicated that Iran is encountering problems receiving sanctions relief u...
NIAC welcomes this morning's UN Human Rights Council vote to renew the mandate for the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed. ...
Khamenei's Holocaust denial remarks are "extremely problematic and deeply disappointing, because these things do undermine a very carefully constructed, useful atmosphere that has been built, tha...
"One must say that everything that has happened up to this point has been unprecedented. We should use that momentum going forward to tackle the very difficult challenges ahead. We should believe...
"The Obama administration needs to help create a clear pathway for humanitarian transactions through the financial blockade that sanctions have created. Without this, the effect of today's author...
Several bills are under consideration in Congress which seek to increase pressure on Iran. All would punish the Iranian people and risk undercutting the incoming Iranian President who has pledged...
"This enables NGOs to send donations directly to other NGOs in Iran," bypassing the Iranian government, which has said it would accept foreign help but has so far rejected assistance offered by t...
"We've got tons of examples of people who can't get medicine," Trita Parsi told Al-Monitor. He said he knew of one case of an Iranian-American's father-in-law who's in a coma because he couldn't ...
Trita Parsi, head of the National Iranian American Council, told Al-Monitor that the Bush administration not only issued a three-month general license for aid to quake victims, but renewed the li...
Reuters quotes NIAC's Reza Marashi about the Iranian government's efforts to "quarantine" its population from the global Internet. ...
Reuters quotes NIAC's Reza Marashi about the Iranian government's efforts to "quarantine" its population from the global Internet. ...
The National Iranian American Council is gravely concerned by reports that the Iranian government plans to execute Zeinab Jalalian, and urgently calls on President Obama to raise this issue publi...