House Responds to Israeli-Iranian Missile Exchange by Taking Rights Away From Americans
“This bill is very concerning because it’s the beginning of a process of criminalizing something that is very normal for many people, which is traveling to Iran,” said Ryan Costello, policy director at the National Iranian American Council. “If you’re an American citizen, the government should not be controlling where you can travel.”
CBC As It Happens: Israel Iran Strike
“The decision by Israel to conduct that strike, I do think was extremely reckless. And I think it is just a question of whether it was reckless out of, you know, negligence or hubris, or was it deliberately reckless? And, you know, my, my great fear is that it really was — the intention was — to provoke Iran, whether it’s to take the focus off of what is happening in Gaza, whether it is to regionalize the war and force the U.S. to enter directly to confront Iran.”
NIAC’s Jamal Abdi on the risks of regional war between Iran and Israel
‘Disastrous’: Israel-Iran tensions test limits of US policy amid Gaza war
Ryan Costello, policy director at NIAC, warned that if the US joins Israel in reprisal strikes, the results could be catastrophic. “It’s really reckless and would certainly plunge the entire region into a disastrous and bloody conflict,” he told Al Jazeera.
‘Frog being boiled’: US troop deaths in Jordan incite Republican Iran hawks
Ryan Costello, policy director at NIAC, warned that if the US joins Israel in reprisal strikes, the results could be catastrophic. “It’s really reckless and would certainly plunge the entire region into a disastrous and bloody conflict,” he told Al Jazeera.
Congress forms caucus to aid Iranian ex-terror group
“The fact that a documented cult-like organization with a history of terrorism, human rights abuses, and committing atrocities alongside Saddam Hussein can get endorsed by lawmakers in Washington is a testament to how much money and power is behind the pro-war with Iran infrastructure here,” says Jamal Abdi, head of the National Iranian American Council.
Diaspora communities, humanitarian and human rights organizations call on Biden to reform sanctions policies
Washington, DC – Today, 24 organizations representing American diaspora communities impacted by U.S. sanctions, as well as humanitarian relief, human rights, and pro-peace organizations, called on the Biden administration to reassess U.S. sanctions and economic policies that carry a heavy human cost, worsened by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The letter states, “Whether country-wide sanctions or […]
20 Organizations Back Biden Restoration of Iran Nuclear Deal
Washington, DC – Today, more than twenty organizations released a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan expressing support for the Biden administration’s vital efforts to restore the JCPOA. The signatories – representing veterans groups, nonproliferation experts, Iranian American and Jewish American community organizations – recognize the vital importance […]
The Guardian: White House asked the Pentagon for plans to strike Iran – report
The National Iranian American Council (NIAC), a pro-diplomacy advocacy group, issued a statement on the Wall Street Journal report, saying: “This administration takes an expansive view of war authorities and is leaning into confrontation with Iran at a time when there are numerous tripwires for conflict across the region.”
Newsweek: Iran Slams Pompeo’s Middle East Speech, Says It Will “Mimic” U.S. Human Rights Model “When Hell Freezes Over”
Jamal Abdi, president of the National Iranian American Council, criticized the secretary’s comments as well, saying Pompeo “failed to outline a coherent strategic logic for the Trump administration’s Middle East policy.”
USA Today: ‘The age of self-inflicted American shame is over,’ Pompeo declares in rebuke of Obama’s policy
Abdi said the Trump administration has “reflexively” backed despotic regimes and simplistically blamed Iran “as the source of all regional ills.” That approach “will succeed at little other than fueling instability,” he said.
SF Weekly: Slack Deletes Accounts of Iranians Outside Iran
The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) suspects that Slack, like other companies without clear instructions on the Trump administration’s new sanctions, appears to have gone above and beyond out of fear.