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Contact: Phil Elwood 917.379.3787 For Immediate Release Washington, DC – The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) strongly condemns the campaign of intimidation being carried out by the Iran...
In July, much of the discussion revolved around the role Rafsanjani might play in a national reconciliation bid. Since the violence this past weekend, editorial pages are abuzz about the possibility...
From President Obama’s press statement today: Before I leave, let me also briefly address the events that have taken place over the last few days in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United Stat...
Trita went on CNN yesterday to discuss why Americans should care about the roiling demonstrations in Iran. He was also asked about the IRGC’s role in an increasingly militarized Iran, and what t...
“Now that I look back on it, I feel those men deserve pity,” says Ebrahim Mehtari. He is responding to an Al Jazeera English interview question, asking “If you could face your torturers again,...
For Immediate Release Contact: Phil Elwood 212.486.7091 Washington, DC – The National Iranian American Council welcomes the decision by the Obama Administration to waive provisions of US sanctio...
Cross-posted from the HuffingtonPost: For more than two decades now, US policy on Iran has depended almost entirely on sanctions. Even now, Congress is set to pass the latest in a long line of “...
For decades, Iranians have lived under the double burden of repression by their government and unintended hardship caused by US sanctions. Even now, Congress is rushing to pass the Iran Refined Petr...
Cross-posted from the HuffingtonPost: The 111th Congress is barreling forward in a last minute race to enact what may prove to be one of the most damaging American foreign policy decision for years to...
(h/t Andrew Sullivan) In honor of the Iranian protesters, Minnesota Public Radio and Kermit the Frog update a classic Muppets song: [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Iwq7HPLfM”]...
Payvand via Radio Zamaneh is reporting that members of the Basij and Revolutionary Guard (Sepah; IRGC; Pasdaran) have stormed Tehran University and Shahid Beheshti University. According to Amir Kabir ...
Via Payvand, an ingenious new strategy from the Iranian protesters: scribbling opposition messages on bank notes. Anti-government activists are not allowed to express themselves in Iranian media, so t...