بیانیه نایاک در رابطه با اعدام محسن شکاری
Click here to read this in English. واشنگتن دی‌سی – شورای ملی ایرانیان آمریکا (نایاک) با صدور بیانیه‌ای اعدام محسن شکاری، معترض ۲۳ ساله که پس از کشته شدن مهسا امینی دستگیر شده بود را محکوم کرد. متن بیانیه به شرح ذیل می‌باشد اعدام محسن شکاری پس از یک محاکمه جعلی، ظلمی آشکار و تخلف […]
Othering Iran: How Dehumanization of Iranians Undermines Rights at Home
This groundbreaking report explains how the dehumanization of Iranians undermines U.S. policy objectives and hurts the Iranian-American community at home, and outlines recommendations to improve the current state of affairs.
The Impact of U.S. Sanctions on Internet Access in Iran
The protests that broke out in Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan province this summer followed a familiar pattern. Iranian citizens took to the streets to air grievances they have with the status quo, in this case dire water shortages intensified by mismanaged water resources and climate change. The Iranian government in turn responded with an internet outage and deadly force and repression to quell the public outpouring of discontent. What may come as a shock to many, however, is the role U.S. sanctions have played in inadvertently helping Iran’s government censor, surveil, and repress its population.
Salamatian on society, state, and sanctions in Iran
The following is a transcription from an interview with Ahmad Salamatian on the French radio France Culture (on February 20, 2012). Mr. Salamatian, a political analyst who served in the Islamic Republic’s first government under Bani Sadr and cofounded the Committee for the Defense of Freedom and Human Rights, explains the evolution of Iranian society […]
How Google, Yahoo, and Go Daddy are Helping to Silence Iranians
Given the public attention surrounding Apple’s over-enforcement of sanctions, now is a good opportunity to look at the broader issue of how sanctions policies negatively impact access to communications technology for people inside Iran. Today, NIAC called on Internet service companies to lift the “electronic curtain” over Iran and other sanctioned countries in a letter […]
U.S. Companies Blocking Communication Tools in Iran
With Apple’s vigilante-sanctions-enforcement/racial profiling of Iranian Americans receiving well-deserved attention, we wanted to spotlight similar over-enforcement of broad sanctions by tech companies impacting people inside Iran. Below is a list of services not technically blocked by sanctions but still denied to Iranians by U.S. companies, compiled via researcher Collin Anderson who maintains and updates the […]
The State of Iran’s Internet Repression
Recently, Collin Anderson, Washington-based Internet researcher discovered a “Request for Information” or RFI issued by Iran’s Ministry of Information that raised questions about the government’s claims for setting up a “Halal Intranet.” What is the state of Iran’s cyber repression? What is the impact of U.S. sanctions and export controls on Iranian’s access to Internet […]