NBC News |ByTrita Parsi: The president upended diplomatic relations based on support from the leaders from Saudi Arabia and Israel. Now our position is rather precarious. President Donald Trump set out to pick a fight with Iran from the early days of his administration. But a set of astonishing developments has pulled the rug out from under his feet,...

IRNA - National Iranian American Council (NIAC) in a message condemned US re-imposition of nuclear-related sanctions on Iran. '[US Secretary of State] Pompeo and Trump claim their sanctions stand with the Iranian people. The same people who will suffer as their currency collapses, as they lack access to necessary food and medicine, as the U.S. opens ...

IRNA - The National Iranian-American Council (NIAC) has strongly criticized the US President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address on Tuesday saying his one year in office was disgraced by discriminatory policies including the notorious Muslim ban which have also hurt Iranians. President Trumps first year in office was spent dividing our ...

Free Beacon- Two high-level Iranian government backers, including a former Islamic Republic official and another accused of lobbying on Tehrans behalf, were hosted at the Obama White House for more than 30 meetings with top officials atkey junctures in the former administrations contested diplomacy with Iran, according to White House visitor logs that ...

Anew studypublished this week by the National Iranian American Council argues that the various tradesanctions the United States has maintained on Iran for more than a decade actually hurts the American economy. The NIAC, a U.S.-based organization that pushes for apeaceful resolution of differencesbetween Washington and Tehran, calculated that between ...

Last fall there washigh-level official contactbetween Iran and the United States for the first time in over 30 years. One of the greatest challenges facing President Obama is the Iranian nuclear issue, so he should invite a member of the Iranian community who best exemplifies the importance of diplomacy:Trita Parsi. Parsi is the founder and president ...

Talks between Iran, the US, and other powers over Iran's nuclear program ended in Geneva today with no revelations about details, but a pledge to meet again in November. Iran and six world powers say they made substantive progress during two days of nuclear talks in Geneva, tentatively breaking 18 months of failure to negotiate limits to Irans nuclear ...

Presidents Obama and Rouhani are the first American and Iranian leaders to speak directly since the 1979 revolution in Iran. Rouhani is under pressure back home to show rapid progress. In a historic moment that could eventually redefine a generation of US-Iran enmity,President Barack Obama spoke to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani by phone today. The ...

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 2013 (IPS)- While the U.S. and Iranian heads of state have yet to meet, the 68thsession of the United Nations General Assembly may mark a new era between the two countries. After more than 30 years of frozen US-Iran relations, President Barack Obama announced Tuesday during his address to the world body that Secretary of State ...

Hassan Rouhani is a centrist who has kept lines of communication open to most of Iran's competing power centres. The inauguration of a new president inIranis an opportunity for sending messages andHassan Rouhanidid not waste it. He told America inhis inauguration speech yesterdaythat if it wanted an adequate response from Iran, it should not speak ...

Hassan Rohani, a moderate cleric, is set to take office as Irans president on Sunday. Some say new sanctions send the right message about Irans nuclear program, while others say they could stifle any improvement in relations. WhenIranelected a moderate cleric to succeed the fiery Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the countrys president last month,President Obamasought ...