CONTACT: Mana Mostatabi | 202.386.6325 x103 | mmostatabi@niacouncil.org
Washington DC –
Jamal Abdi, President of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), issued the following statement on the letter from 150 Members of the House of Representatives conveying broad Congressional support for President-elect Biden to return to the Iran nuclear deal:
“Joe Biden will inherit a far worse situation with Iran than his predecessor, Donald Trump. Returning to the nuclear deal with Iran will be the only credible and proven path for the President Elect to reverse Trump’s failures, deescalate across the region, ease the sanctions pressure crushing the Iranian people and restore long-lasting restraints to Iran’s nuclear program.
Dear NIAC supporters,
I am pleased to share NIAC and NIAC Action’s latest impact report. 2020 has been a tumultuous year, framed against the backdrop of three incredibly challenging years for our community and country. Yet, in spite of these challenges, together we have managed to achieve enormous successes for our community and our cause.
This year, we helped rally the public against war with Iran and passed War Powers legislation to reign in the President. We finally passed legislation out of the House to repeal the Muslim Ban on our families, and we secured a commitment from the Biden campaign to repeal the Ban on “day one” and return to the Iran nuclear deal. And ahead of the most important election of our lives, we launched the largest Iranian-American voter outreach and turnout campaign in history and, through our new NIAC Action Political Action Committee, we helped defeat Donald Trump, support new and established House and Senate allies, and elect a new generation of