2025 Annual Member Survey Report
The policies and priorities of the National Iranian American Council have been determined by our volunteers and donors for more than two decades. This year NIAC received approximately 629 survey results; a summary of the results and our takeaways from this important survey follow.
Iranian American Voter Outreach Report
In October 2024, with support from the Proteus Fund, NIAC conducted its largest-ever nonpartisan voter outreach campaign. Using a national voter database and an AI tool developed by a NIAC chapter volunteer, we identified over 120,000 registered Iranian American voters across the country.
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.