طرح ممنوعیت مسافرت شهروندان آمریکایی به ایران توسط تندروها در کنگره آمریکا پیگیری می‌شود
واشنگتن دی سی – همانطور که پیش از این هشدار داده بودیم، تندروها طرح ممنوعیت سفر اتباع آمریکایی به ایران را به کنگره آمریکا ارائه کرده‌اند. این طرح به دنبال ممنوعیت سفر همه اتباع ایالات متحده، از جمله شهروندان دو تابعیتی ایرانی – آمریکایی به ایران است و تصویب آن محدودیت‌های .جدیدی برای ملاقات صدها […]
The Vicious Cycle of U.S.-Iran Tensions Continues in the Persian Gulf
This week, 2,000 U.S. Marines and three warships are joining recently deployed fighter jets and a naval destroyer aimed at countering Iran in the Persian Gulf. Why? Because the unilateral enforcement by the U.S. of sanctions beyond our borders has set off a dangerous tit for tat with Iran that amounts to a competition in […]
NIAC Letter to Biden Administration to Support Iranian Internet Access
Washington, DC – The National Iranian American Council sent a letter today to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen calling on the Biden administration to support the rights of Iranian protestors with better access to the internet. The letter urges the U.S. Treasury Department to update General License D-1 to […]
بیانیه نایاک در خصوص اکران فیلم با حضور پرویز پرستویی در جنوب کالیفرنیا
Click here to read this in English. شورای ملی ایرانیان آمریکا (نایاک) در رابطه با نمایش فیلم مستند ‘افسانه بناسان’ یا ‘داستان‌های هزار و یک روز’ در جنوب کالیفرنیا و حواشی آن بیانیه‌ای به شرح ذیل صادر نمود هفته گذشته، نمایش فیلمی مستند در لس‌آنجلس و اورنج کانتی با حضور پرویز پرستویی، هنرپیشه مشهور ایرانی، به جنجال و […]
NIAC Congratulates Trump for Firing Bolton
“We congratulate President Donald Trump on what may become the best decision of his Presidency. This single move dramatically reduces the chances of a new, catastrophic war in the Middle East. We have long said that the key first step in resolving the crisis with Iran was for Trump to fire Bolton. So long as Bolton was in the administration, he would always be the fox in the henhouse working to sabotage diplomacy.”
From the Hill: NIAC Asks if the U.S. and Iran are on a Collision Course
The Trump administration’s sanctions on Iran risk “impoverishing the Iranian middle class, crushing the Iranian civil society and eliminating prospects for peaceful democratic change,” warned Sina Toossi. “It is really creating a destructive situation internally.”
How Close is Close?
As negotiations reconvene here in Vienna, Iran and its six counterparts in the P5+1 are close to finalizing a comprehensive nuclear deal that would end over a decade of conflict. How close is close? Some P5+1 negotiators say the deal is 95 percent done – but the remaining five percent is the most difficult details. […]
Feinstein Delivers Strong Defense of Diplomacy on Senate Floor
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) added to her credentials as a champion of diplomacy with Iran with a remarkable speech on the floor of the Senate last night. Sen. Feinstein warned that S.1881, a sanctions bill from Sens. Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) that has garnered 59 cosponsors, would “collapse negotiations” and be a […]
Rep. Blumenauer Calls to Give Diplomacy a Chance
Last week, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR-3) delivered another strong statement in support of U.S.-Iran diplomacy, calling for Congress to “calm down and give diplomacy a chance” in response to new Iran sanctions legislation. Speaking on the House floor, Rep. Blumenauer extolled the interim agreement with Iran and urged Congress, “Let’s work to make progress with the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kristol’s Push for Military Strikes Against Iran
William Kristol and Jamie Fly, neoconservatives who were instrumental in orchestrating the War in Iraq, are at it again. While their previous war advocacy shop, the Project for a New American Century, is now defunct (after a job well done), they have reconstituted their pro-war efforts in the form of the Foreign Policy Institute. This […]