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Maine Public
April 27, 2018
The speaker is Trita Parsi, Founder and President of the National Iranian American Council. His talk is entitled: Trump, Bolton and the Iran Deal. Trump may end the Iran Nuclear deal before May 12 and has just appointed John Bolton as his National Security Advisor, who has publicly identified withdrawal from the deal as aÃâà...
KPVI News 6
April 26, 2018
A prisoner exchange in January 2016 that freed Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian and three other Iranian-Americans also saw the U.S. make a ... Iranian-American art dealer Karan Vafadari and his Iranian wife, Afarin Neyssari, recently received 27-year and 16-year prison sentences respectively.
Fresno Bee (blog)
April 26, 2018
These experiences are why I helped to build an organization called Iranian Alliances Across Borders (IAAB) and dedicated my career to empowering young Iranian Americans. They find strength in defining their identity and culture for themselves through summer camps and leadership programs, bringingÃâà...
IFP News
April 25, 2018
Dean of the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad says the Iranian university has started collaboration with the University of South Florida on earthquake studies. Keyvan Hosseini told a press conference on Tuesday that “the main contents of this memorandum of understanding are in the field of research onÃâà...
Voice of America
April 25, 2018
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif's weeklong visit to New York to defend Iran's nuclear and regional policies has drawn protests from an Iranian American group. Several dozen supporters of the Organization of Iranian American Communities (OIAC) joined a demonstration Monday across theÃâà...
The Underground
April 11, 2018
The Iranian-American Peace Bridge Exhibition hosted by Yeganeh Zamani showcases the various similarities between Iranian and American lifestyles through a series of photos taken by Iranian photographers at the HUB-Robeson Center Engagement Space on Wednesday, April 11, 2018.
KIRO Seattle
April 5, 2018
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The Iranian-American woman who opened fire at YouTube's headquarters this week appears to have lashed out after she felt the company had censored her often bizarre videos- a motive that many found perplexing in Iran, where YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are blocked.
Tehran Times
April 4, 2018
TEHRAN – An Iranian-American lawyer on Tuesday sworn in as U.S. assistant secretary of commerce for industry and analysis affairs. On March 19, the U.S. Senate agreed to appoint Nazak Nikakhtar as the assistant secretary of commerce for industry and analysis affairs. For over a decade, Nikakhtar hasÃâà...
Voice of America
March 29, 2018
Shahrooz Shekaraubi will tell you that his passion and work comes from the influence of his brother being a multifaceted artist. “He's a painter, musician and a poet,” Shekaraubi says. “It is because of him that I developed a strong passion and interest of Persian literature and that became my voice.”.
Voice of America
March 17, 2018
Republican Senator John Boozman and Democratic Senator Ben Cardin spoke to the Organization of Iranian-American Communities (OIAC) on Thursday ... OIAC is a nonprofit group that seeks to mobilize Iranian-Americans to support what it calls the Iranian people's “struggle for democratic change” and aÃâà...
IIT Today
March 15, 2018
Active in his local Iranian-American community and a founding member of the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans, Bahman was honored by the Iranian-American Technology Council in 2003 for his contributions to the field of technology. He was also elected to the IIT Board of Trustees in 2003.
ChristianityToday.com
March 8, 2018
When Samira Izadi Page arrived in Dallas nearly two decades ago, she experienced a generous Texas welcome from a local Baptist church that provided her Iranian family a fully furnished apartment. That first impression changed her life—setting her on the path to finally convert to Christianity, seekÃâà...
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
March 1, 2018
March 1, 2018—The son of Iranian-American Karan Vafadari, who is imprisoned in Tehran's Evin Prison, said his stepmother, Afarin Neyssari, also imprisoned in Iran, fears for her husband's life after officials claimed without any evidence that two previous detainee deaths in January 2018 were suicides.
Florida Politics (blog)
February 27, 2018
Democratic House District 47 candidate Anna Eskamani, an Orlando native born of Iranian immigrants, has garnered the national endorsement of the National Iranian American Council Action, her campaign announced Tuesday. Eskamani is just the second candidate the organization has endorsed thisÃâà...
The Media Line
February 19, 2018
The bi-partisan bill would also stipulate that Washington expedite the transfer of communications technologies to Iran in order to help activists circumvent regime-imposed censorship. Majid Sadeghpour, the Political Director for the Organization of Iranian American Communities (OIAC), is likewise activelyÃâà...
Iranian
February 16, 2018
Updates on the future of Karan Vafadari and his wife Afarin Neyssari have been infrequent and grim, but a recent letter written by Karan outlines the present situation. The couple are well-known art dealers and own a gallery in Tehran (notable for being the first privately-owned contemporary art space), andÃâà...
iMediaEthics
February 16, 2018
WGN Chicago invited Muslim Iranian-American Hoda Katebi, who wears a hijab, on air to speak about her fashion blog. But the conversation suddenly switched from fashion to politics with a dash of xenophobia when one host asked her to talk about Iran and nuclear weapons, and the other told her “youÃâà...
