Peace & Diplomacy
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Sina Toossi, Senior Research Analyst at the National Iranian American Council, issued the following statement following Iran’s release of formerly-imprisoned Navy veteran Michael White...
Yesterday, Dr. Sirous Asgari was finally released from ICE detention and deported to Iran, following a successful judicial decision to release him from custody. Dr. Asgari, an Iranian engineering prof...
NIAC Action and a dozen other organizations - including Foreign Policy for America, J Street, MoveOn, Our Revolution and Truman Center for National Policy - sent a letter jointly calling on the Democr...
Jamal Abdi, President of the National Iranian American Council, issued the following statement following a Washington Post report indicating that the Trump administration is planning to end sanctions ...
Jamal, Ryan and Sina discuss The New Yorker piece "Twilight of the Revolution" and a proposal from the rightwing organization JINSA urging Trump to officially pursue "regime collapse" in Iran. T...
In a letter to the on the Democratic National Committee. NIAC Action is calling to make returning to the Iran nuclear agreement and repealing Trump's Muslim Ban a part of its 2020 Platform. As the par...
According to The New York Times, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is planning to use the expiration of the UN arms embargo on Iran in October 2020 in a broader strategy to snap back all United Nations s...
A new anthology, "My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora," presents 30 essays on the Iranian-American experience from a range of authors. Mana and Assal speak with the editors, Katheri...
President Trump’s veto of Sen. Kaine’s war powers resolution holds because more than a third of the Senate put loyalty to a reckless President over the national interest. Regardless, Congress has ...
Jamal Abdi, President of the National Iranian American Council, issued the following statement on President Trump’s veto of the bipartisan war powers resolution (S.J.Res. 68) that passed the House a...
In a letter to members of the House of Representatives and Senate, NIAC united with over 50 organizations to urge against providing additional money to the Pentagon in this fiscal year, after it alrea...
NIAC remains committed to ongoing efforts to lift sanctions that hinder the Iranian people’s ability to combat coronavirus. In a letter to the President, we highlighted our health concerns for Irani...