The Truth. The Whole Truth. And, Nothing but the Truth.

As the Director of Community Outreach at NIAC, I have the pleasure of regularly meeting and speaking with Iranian Americans from across the country. These conversations leave me proud of our culture and appreciative of our diversity. However, these interactions have also shed some light on one issue I find particularly painful, which is the fact that our community often falls prey to the rumor mill and conspiracy theories.

Apple’s ‘Iran Policy’ Shows Why We Can’t Shy Away from Politics

NIAC’s Jamal Abdi and Nobar Elmi published a piece in Tehran Bureau last Friday in which they argue that recent allegations of discrimination by Apple employees against Iranian Americans are rooted in flawed US-Iran sanctions policy. They write, “we need to realize that what is happening is not just a series of individual cases of […]

Iranian-American Reflections from the Campaign Trail

NIAC spoke with Mark Ameli who ran for a seat as a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge in the largest county in United States. Mark’s reflections from the campaign trail provide good insight into the high stakes game of politics.