Jamal Abdi
@jabdi
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Today
@NIACouncil
@DAWNmenaorg
@QuincyInst
@CIPolicy
@USCPR_
called on the Biden administration to stop turning a blind eye to influence & disinformation operations Israel has been caught funding against American peace activists, civil society, and lawmakers that are corrosive to
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We have talked to Iranian Americans detained for 12 hours at borders & airports this weekend, asked about views on political situation with Iran, etc. Care to explain, provide any clarity for Iranian Americans coming home from holiday travel? Or does it have to happen in court?
Social media posts that CBP is detaining Iranian-Americans and refusing their entry into the U.S. because of their country of origin are false. Reports that DHS/CBP has issued a related directive are also false.
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We shouldn't have to rely on what the president's advisors say on Meet the Press to learn what our rights are in this country
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Bernie Sanders on Senate floor calling for delay on planned Iran sanctions vote in solidarity w/people of Iran in light of terror attack
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DHS intel disagrees w/WH on restricting the 7 countries under Muslim ban. Said targeting nationality makes no sense
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Trump’s brown shirts out in force. Accusing Iranian Americans of dual loyalties, eager to send Americans to die in another stupid war in the Middle East. Charlie, if you want to go to war so bad, get off Twitter and ENLIST.
Disgraceful:
Bernie Sanders AND Elizabeth Warren are hosting a conference call with pro-Iran group NIAC the day after Iran bombed our military bases
The lobby group has close ties with Tehran & the Iranian government
Whose side are the Democrat frontrunners actually on?
🤔
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US & Israel efforts to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program have now morphed into Trump & Netanyahu sabotaging the next US President. They are trying to goad Iran into provocations & accelerating nuclear work-exactly what they claim to oppose. Their real fear is US & Iran talking
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Trump's Muslim ban also instructs govt to begin compiling reports on "foreign born" people in US - that means American citizens
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Legislation to overturn Trump Muslim ban intro'd in House & Senate. Nearly every Dem has signed on. 0 Republicans
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Does
@NIACouncil
support, take money from, or lobby for the Iranian government? No!! No way, no how.
#Mahsa_Amini
#Iran
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It took 3 yrs of direct negotiations after 30 yrs of no engagement & threats, to finally take the specter of war with Iran off the table & put US-Iran on diplomatic track. It took Trump 3 years to break it and start a war
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@SecPompeo
@SenWarren
This is what passes for diplomacy from the worst Secretary of State in US history. Can’t accomplish anything on world stage, not lifting a finger to stop pandemic, resigned to passive aggressive Twitter beef with US Senators. Good luck taking this show to the Security Council
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3.5 million at risk of dying in Iran, US w/ over 100,000 cases & rising. And this is what you spend your time on? Slandering our organization with tired lies, intimidating Iranian Americans you disagree with from participating in our democracy
1-Many Iranian human rights activists like me have to fight against both the Islamic Republic of Iran & their support networks abroad like the
@NIACouncil
NIAC has proven to be an obstacle to the cause of human rights. My 3-part debate with a NIAC Representative
مناظره با نایاک
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This is a coordinated attack against Iranian Americans. Dubowitz, Bolton, et al wants to claim Iranians will “welcome us as liberators.” Iranian Americans who oppose war are the biggest threat to their agenda. So they attack NIAC to try to silence our community’s pro peace voice
I see from my Twitter feed today that many Iranians are using
#NIACLobbies4Mullahs
to express their anger and frustration.
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Iran violated the deal before it existed, Trump violated it after
LOL "There is little doubt that even before the deal’s existence, Iran was violating its terms."
I think we can say with 100% certainty that indeed! Iran was not in compliance with a deal it had yet agreed to!
What a clown show.
#IranDeal
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In case there was any doubt about the endgame for these folks, it's war
"It's time for the US to move to the next option, which is the military option to eliminate Iran's various nuclear sites. The US certainly has the capability to do so," and can do it faster and easier than Israel, former
@StateDept
official
@elliecohanim
told
@IranIntl_En
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Iranian Americans originally born in Iran are asking us for help to have their place of birth removed from their passports to avoid harassment and detention by CBP. This is not America
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Hopefully Iran doesn't respond by going after Ronald Reagan
Trump says Ayatollah Khomeini, 30 years dead, will not be spared from the sanctions. Sanctions overreach into the afterlife:
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Remember when Tom Cotton & nearly the entire Senate GOP sent a letter to Iran telling them to wait out Obama? In the middle of a negotiation? And invited the Israeli prime minister to Congress to bash Obama? If anything, there's your FARA violation
John Kerry had illegal meetings with the very hostile Iranian Regime, which can only serve to undercut our great work to the detriment of the American people. He told them to wait out the Trump Administration! Was he registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act? BAD!
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Our statement: Donald Trump owns this 100%.
We condemn all military escalations by both the Iranian and US governments that have led us to this tragic and avoidable point. It is not too late to pull back from a full-blown war.
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This is what the fascists who want to silence democratic debate in the US & hijack the movement for democracy in Iran are apparently circulating on Telegram - a threat against a major U.S. university not to host an Iranian American journalist. I assume fake but who knows.
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Trump's secret plan to defeat ISIS was an executive order requiring the military to come up with a plan to defeat ISIS
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Iran will never be a democracy until US stops destabilizing & threatening to bomb it
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House Dems move to make visas available to immigrants denied by Trump travel bans
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CIA has been green lit to conduct sabotage and terrorism inside Iran to destabilize the country. In what world does the CIA running around blowing things up to cause chaos lead to peace, stability, democracy, human rights or nonproliferation?
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Bannon overruled DHS, demanded Trump ban include green card holders. We knew the order gave this option, now we know it was no accident
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Here is all Iranian Americans need to know about the Trump admin:
1.Banned Iranians from this country
2.Sanctioned food & medicine in Iran
3.Funded an organization dedicated to political attacks on Iranian Americans
4.Demoted a civil servant because of her Iranian heritage
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Trump bans your family & blames the victims of ISIS attacks that killed 17 Iranians. You call Trump a bad word and CNN fires you. Wow.
CNN spokeswoman confirms that the network has parted ways with
@RezaAslan
, who posted profane anti-Trump tweets. Story coming shortly
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Imagine thinking democracy in Iran can be achieved by destroying the middle class there with sanctions, & attacking independent journalists & civil society in the US. Makes you wonder who some of these supposed opposition activists are really working for.
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You can’t spend years planting the seeds of hate & then disavow the flowers when they blossom. Kaveh has driven narrative that all Iranians in diaspora opposed to US imperialism are “Iran lobby” & traitors. Until he disavows that he is responsible for this
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We call on Congress and the administration to ensure that all those impacted by the Muslim Ban have their harm redressed, including diversity visa recipients unjustly blocked by Trump’s discriminatory orders.
Great news! The House has just passed the NO BAN Act (from
@RepJudyChu
). In response to this big win, NIAC President
@jabdi
issued the following statement ⬇️
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Honored to have to this racist wingnut question my loyalty as an American. So sorry you didn’t get your war.
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We are having to remove photos of prominent Iranian-American women in public and elected office because they are getting death & rape threats from supposed Iranian opposition groups, likely amplified by state actors. Will nobody condemn this, what do you actually stand for?
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Live shot of “Heshmat Alavi” right now
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“When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.”
#RIPJohnLewis
@repjohnlewis
tells me he's going to sit at airport and wait for info on delays for processing Iranian families returning home
@FOX5Atlanta
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Excellent! Just so I’m clear, this means I have not been classified by you & FDD as a “regime affiliated America hater” and so I get to continue to live and work in the country where I was born and have served? I appreciate it, thanks Mark. Now do my colleagues
I’ve never called you or anyone else “agents of the regime.” You’re a highly effective defender of the regime and too often whitewash its crimes. But that’s a distinction with an important difference.
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Going on Israeli TV to advocate war on Iran is a new but familiar low & I don’t think the type of “unifying leadership” many Iranians have in mind.
Iranian lives mean little to Pahlavi who supports sanctions, collapse & war.
Asked about military intervention in
#Iran
he says: “If proper pressure doesn’t exist at this time to force this regime to collapse then of course it would become unavoidable to consider other options”
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We wake up to see the President shaming black athletes & go to sleep with him banning our families. Just another Sunday in the new America
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Unlike you we don’t take a dime of government money. We will never shill for any government the way you have sold your soul to shill for Pompeo & Trump. You are the saddest case yet of how human rights activists get bought by forces who only want to destroy Iran & it’s people
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When MBS is the voice of reason and your guy is the hothead...you probably need a new president
Saudi Arabia is sending a delegation to Washington to urge restraint with Iran on behalf of Gulf states. The message will be: “please spare us the pain of going through another war”
(aka, be careful what you wish for)
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I am shocked, SHOCKED, that Saudi Arabia has been caught manipulating Twitter through bots! Next thing we’ll find out they are using them to amplify monarchist, MEK & pro-Israel think tank tweets in an attempt to shape America’s domestic debate on our Iran policy. My word!
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Want to support Iranians? Stop sanctioning Iran’s Internet
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Hey look at that, the IAEA was able to inspect the "Atomic warehouse" Netanyahu was so concerned about thanks to the Iran deal he's tried so hard to destroy
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Anyone who thinks the path to democracy in Iran involves the US government attacking American civil society here at home probably doesn't actually care about democracy
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State Dept has suspended funding for IranDisinfo, one of the propaganda accounts that promoted the anti-NIAC tweetstorm this past weekend. Tavanna, also govt funded, & FDD are closely linked to Irandisinfo & engages in similar activity. This may just be the tip of the iceberg
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Update:
@amazon
removed the shirts. Now let’s remove this president
On 'Pro Trump' label selling “F--k Iran” shirts,
@jabdi
: "sale of an inflammatory, xenophobic product that celebrates denigration of an entire country of 83 million people is unacceptable & NIAC calls on Amazon to immediately remove this offensive item"
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If Pompeo wants to scare Americans about Iran he’s better off claiming they have ties to the Proud Boys
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It goes without saying but Trump would never threaten to destroy cultural sites important to White European heritage
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Behold, the campaign to claim that Israel bombing Iran will help liberate the Iranian people and protect Israel. Reality check: war will decimate Iran’s pro-democracy movement, be a coup for the IRI to re-consolidate power, & make an Iranian nuke infinitely more likely.
אם ישראל תיאלץ להפציץ את אתרי הגרעין של המשטר האסלאמי אז ישראל תעשה זאת! אבל ישראל לא תפיל את המשטר, העם האיראני הוא זה שיעשה את זה
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This is chilling and unacceptable. This administration funded an organization that spread propoganda— amplified by
@Dubowitz
@FDD
— labeling Iranian American domestic critics at Human Rights Watch, Int’l Crisis Group, LA Times, & NIAC as “agents of the regime.”
And expel regime-affiliated persons from the United States. Iranians who love America, in. Regime-affiliated America haters, out. Now that’s smart policy.
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One of the accounts in the orchestrated campaign is Irandisinfo, funded by the US State Department. Is Trump admin funneling taxpayer dollars to attack Iranian-American civil society organizations? Does Congress know?
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Every passing day that the US and Iran do not
#ReSealTheDeal
cements Donald Trump’s legacy and resigns us to his dangerous vision for the US role in the world
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Dr. Sirous Asgari tested positive for coronavirus this morning. ICE, America's lawless police force, could soon be responsible for an Iranian national guilty of no crime dying in U.S. detention. He must be moved to a hospital immediately.
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I'm grateful to wake up every morning to build grassroots power for Iranian Americans alongside a team of passionate advocates who have dedicated their careers to preventing war, protecting our rights, & strengthening democracy.
@niacouncil
@niacaction
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Just imagine the apoplectic garbage
@bloomberg
would be churning out right now if the Iran deal actually was dead. These people are salivating for Iran to exit the deal, kick out inspectors & restart nuclear work so they can help sell a war
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Iranian-American Community Advisory: Know Your Rights at the Airport and the Border
English:
Persian:
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Fox News already beginning to blame Obama for implications of Soleimani assassination. Sounds like it’s starting to sink in what this could mean
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Next Wednesday Congress will finally vote to repeal the 3.5 yr old Muslim Ban, Trump’s 1st official act of racist incompetence. Ironically the vote will take place as Americans are also now banned from travel thanks to the President’s incompetence
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Recently had to leave Qanon & looking for a new cult or terrorist organization to join? Let me tell you about the MEK...
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Our strength comes not only from our community, but from our fellow Americans who have often stood beside us to defend our rights. Now we must do the same for our black brothers & sisters, not just as Americans, but as human beings that recognize injustice
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A Crenshaw loss (to an Iranian-American immigrant no less!) “would be one of the most defiant repudiations of Trumpism imaginable”
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We shouldn’t let Iranians get vaccines because the regime will use the vaccines to support terrorism..?? It’s astonishing the knots some will twist themselves into to justify the brutalization & dehumanization of ordinary Iranians.
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Not just attacking
@NIACouncil
, attacking any Iranian-American analyst, journalist, candidate, onlooker etc who does not toe the FDD/Bolton line on Iran. Aimed at intimidating Iranian Americans from excercising their right to civic engagement. Authoritarian regime tactics
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Instead of making propaganda videos, how about take actual steps to reduce impact of sanctions on ordinary Iranians? There are plenty of recommendations
@NIACouncil
& others have put forward. But reality is maximum pressure is aimed at causing as much human suffering as possible
Special Representative for Iran, Brian Hook, is debunking myths regarding U.S. sanctions.
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Support for the Iran Deal keeps rising, now more popular than ever
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One of best things
@brhodes
said at
@NIACouncil
conference was how frustrated he was that his Iranian American colleagues were slandered because of their heritage. Here we see it on full display: Mark smears us as anti-Semites, says we work for the regime, pays zero cost. Sick
Why did you as President Obama’s adviser speak at an Iranian-regime lobbying organization that routinely spews anti-Semitism & defends a brutally repressive & aggressive regime?
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Romney says US policy on Iran is supposed to make example of Iran for rest of world that pursuing nuclear weapon will hurt. Does he realize the message we've sent to the world is agreeing to curb nuclear work hurts & best path is North Korea not Libya (or Iran)?
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The image of a total vacuum of leadership
Lights that usually illuminate exterior of the WH have been turned off.
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This moment is not about you. Its not an opportunity to score political points on the backs of ppl struggling for human rights whether in Iran or US. Its not a chance for a new book deal or to increase your funding from Trump & Pompeo. Stop lying
I gave this interview to CBC a while ago.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has lobbies in the West such as NIAC & the ICC.
These lobbies hijack progressive causes like
#BlackLivesMatter
while not saying a single word about the killing of Iranians back home by the regime.
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5 years on and the nightmare of Trump’s Muslim Ban continues to plague families inside and outside the US. Biden’s repeal was just the first step, it is time for Biden & Congress to take the next decisive steps to repair the damage and end the ban for good
Trump's Muslim Ban is *STILL* hurting families.
Biden ended it going forward — but families already separated by it could wait *years* to be reunited.
Fixing this would take one decision by the Biden administration.
Drop them a line➡️
#NoMuslimBanEver
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Just a reminder: the sanctions the world is calling on Trump to suspend are ones the US already agreed to lift but are back in place because Trump abandoned the nuclear deal. Iranians are dying for Trump’s anti-Obama vanity project
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US & Iran have not had diplomatic relations for 41 years. We have had sanctions that whole time, an economic embargo since 87, extraterritorial oil sanctions since 95, and iterations of maximum pressure sanctions since 2012. The one time we did diplomacy, Trump tore up the result
.
@jabdi
thanks for your response. Judging from your answer I reckon you believe engagement promotes reform in Iran. So, every US president since Carter has tried to engage with the regime one way or the other, what has come out of each engagement effort?
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Kevin McCarthy supports banning all Iranians from this country. He has blocked efforts to lift or even limit the ban. Instead of supporting Iranians he prefers to use them to advance his own partisan interests. His empty words aren’t worth the paper they are written on.
What a disappointment —Democrats just blocked a vote on a resolution supporting the Iranian protestors.
This is not the time for partisan politics. This should be a time for the US Congress to speak with one voice to condemn an Iranian regime that kills its own people.
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Tom Cotton & Ted Cruz are pushing for war with Iran & threatening American domestic critics w/tools of the state. This is far more dangerous than dirty politics. And it belies any claims these people want democracy for Iran when they don’t even want one here.
When Senators
@TomCottonAR
&
@tedcruz
attacked us to try to stop our efforts to prevent war w/ Iran, our friends had our backs. Read the letter from former US officials, peace & civil rights groups, & community leaders
#StandWithNIAC
#DissentIsDemocratic
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Solid start...
Reporter: Make the case this was Iran not the Houthis.
Pompeo: It doesn't matter.
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This is an own goal for diaspora opposition groups. Politicizing sports and targeting people to people diplomacy will not result in peace, democracy or human rights. Banning Iranians because they are Iranian will only come back to haunt all of us.
Canada Soccer has cancelled the international match that was scheduled for 5 June 2022 against Iran as part of the Men’s National Team preparations for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™. Additional details will be provided to all ticket purchasers.
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Call Congress NOW & tell your lawmaker to stop Trump from starting war w/Iran. This is it, time for them to step up or be complicit. 1-844-ACT-NIAC
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This official claimed last year that new sanctions on Iran’s central bank did not target humanitarian trade. It did, that was the point. That’s why 2 weeks ago Treasury had to suspend those sanctions. There remain many more impediments & he knows it. His job is to lie about this
This "analysis" is 100% false. I assume this person knows better and is intentionally spreading misinformation. In fact, the U.S. sanctions DO NOT limit all imports. Food, medicine, and medical devices are NOT sanctioned. If you care about the Iranian people, stick to the facts.
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These guys say any diplomatic agreement a president negotiates w/Iran needs to be ratified - meaning support from two thirds of the Senate (!). But war with Iran? The president should just do whatever he wants. Says a lot.
Which is why all of this talk of needing congressional approval to respond to
#Iran
if they attack us is a waste of time. Even the unconstitutional resolution they rely on for this argument makes clear President doesn’t need approval to respond to attacks against our armed forces
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Al Qaeda attacked US on 9/11 & we went to war with Iraq. If this report is true, ISIS attacked US & we nearly went to war with Iran.
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The few Iranian Americans who attended Pompeo's speech I heard from said they were doing so to have the opportunity for dialogue. I did not hear their voices. I heard standing ovations for sanctions, banning Iranians from the US, & Donald Trumps Iran policy
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200,000 Iranians have died in a pandemic that has been exacerbated by US sanctions. With his sanctions review complete, Biden must now take overdue steps to ensure vaccine access & humanitarian relief do not continue to be blocked by our sanctions
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Netanyahu says Trump named Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist group at his request - Los Angeles Times
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Nobody has studied how to violate and abuse the JCPOA more than the people who once claimed Iran would violate and abuse the JCPOA
Some UN Security Council trivia ahead of
#Iran
snapback fight. Under UNSCR 2231, US could file a complaint to trigger snapback process; introduce its own resolution to ignore its own complaint; use "double veto" to force a vote; and then veto its own resolution to force snapback.
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Very welcome news if true. But this is the arbitrary power of a dictator, not rule of law. President detained green card holders at his whim
"The order is not effecting green card holders going forward," says
@Reince
on
@MeetThePress
.
#airportprotest
#immigrationban
#MTP
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Donald Trump has vetoed 5 bills. 4 of them were to protect Saudi Arabia
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If your argument is that sanctions have zero humanitarian impact, and it’s ok to sanction ordinary people in a pandemic if their government is bad, you don’t get to play “bad faith” police
A manifestly bad faith tweet. Abdi and his
#IranLobby
cohort know full well that U.S. sanctions have humanitarian exceptions, that Iran has turned down U.S. offers of assistance, and that it prefers foreign adventurism to health at home. But sure, lets pretend it's all our fault.
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