NIAC Urges Diplomatic Action at UNGA to Prevent Escalation
Iran’s new president clearly wants to negotiate and has sent a delegation to the UN that includes its previous successful nuclear negotiating team. It would be malpractice for the Biden administration not to test this opportunity.
Israeli Escalation Continues to Threaten Regional Stability and Peace
As regional war looms and civilian casualties mount, NIAC urges the Biden administration to use all available leverage to secure a ceasefire and halt violence.
Supporting the Iranian People Means Opposing War
In 2002, the drumbeats of war started and countless talking heads in Washington, DC claimed that, if we invaded Iraq, it would bring democracy and stability to the Middle East. The Bush Administration amplified claims by Iraqi exiles eager to return to power that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators and, freed of […]
NIAC Statement on Assassination of Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh
Israel has apparently killed its counterpart in the ceasefire negotiations and, in so doing, killed immediate hopes of ending this war before it spirals into a regional conflagration. Hamas has engaged in many clear and disturbing violations of international law, including in the October 7th attacks, but the assassination of one of its prominent leaders and ceasefire negotiators in Iran’s capital is highly provocative.
Statement on Strikes Killing Civilians Playing Soccer in Golan Heights
The reports and images of the killing of children and teens at a soccer field in the town of Majdal Shams – home to a large Druze population in the Israel-occupied Golan Heights – have been heart-breaking. We mourn them, just as we mourn the countless children and innocent civilians who have been killed in this conflict. The United States to maximize its leverage over Netanyahu to force a ceasefire deal.
NIAC Statement on Benjamin Netanyahu’s Latest Congressional Address
Washington, DC – Jamal Abdi, President of the National Iranian American Council, issued the following statement regarding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest address before a joint session of Congress: “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disgraced the U.S. Congress today by blatantly lying about Israel’s war crimes and systematic killing and starvation of innocent Palestinian […]
Dozens of Civil Society Organizations Demand Federal Investigation Into Israeli Campaign Targeting Americans
Today NIAC led 30+ organizations in demanding the Biden administration call for an investigation and accountability into covert Israeli influence operations targeting Americans.
Do Iranian Americans Have a Stake in the War in Gaza?
The following piece was written by Jamal Abdi, President of the National Iranian American Council. The ongoing war in Gaza, in which Israeli forces have killed over 36,000 Palestinians with little end in sight, is not some distant crisis that is disconnected from the lives of Americans. As the slaughter of civilians has provoked widespread […]
NIAC Joins 180+ Organizations to Call on U.S. Universities to End Crackdown on Student Protests in Solidarity with Gaza
Washington, DC – NIAC was one among over 180 organizations in a letter today calling on U.S. universities to end the crackdown on campus protests and encampments demanding an end to the war in Gaza. These students, who are exercising their right to protest peacefully amid an atmosphere of pressure, intimidation, and even physical retaliation, […]
NIAC Joins Over 100 Organizations to Call for UNRWA Restoration
NIAC was one among over 100 organizations in a letter sent today to President Biden, Speaker Johnson and Leader Schumer expressing concern over Congress’s decision to reinforce and codify the Biden Administration’s suspension of U.S. funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which is the largest humanitarian operator on the ground in […]
With Israel and Iran on the Brink, Congress Doubles Down on War Path in the House
Congress is exploiting recent tensions to jam through a series of hawkish approaches toward Iran and the Middle East as a whole, including legislation to push forward a ban on U.S. travel to Iran and a package that provides billions to send weapons to Israel and an expansion of broad Iran sanctions.
NIAC Action New York travels to Washington DC to demand a Ceasefire Now and No War with Iran
NIAC Action’s New York Chapter sponsored and led a team of 23 volunteers from New York City down to D.C. to meet with leading lawmakers from New York – including staff for the Senate majority and House minority leaders – to call for a ceasefire, halting an escalation to war with Iran, surging humanitarian aid and halting all offensive weapons transfers to Israel.