Dignified Diplomacy, Not Capitulation: A Response to Senator Chris Murphy
By Navid Mohebbi This week Senator Chris Murphy had something of a tantrum on Twitter when he was faced with backlash to the Biden administration’s recently announced deal to release $6 billion to the...
View ArticleHiding in the Shadows: Exposing Human Rights Violators in the 2022 Iranian...
NUFDI’s Policy Team has spent the past several months gathering information on 100 judicial, security and other officials of the Islamic Republic at the national, provincial and local level involved...
View ArticleThe Islamic Republic’s Western “Lobby” Gets Exposed
Andrew Ghalili, SENIOR POLICY ANALYST In the wake of Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley having his security clearance suspended and being investigated by the FBI, new reporting has revealed the...
View ArticleArmita Geravand – Another Iranian Woman Brutalized Because of Hijab
Andrew Ghalili, SENIOR POLICY ANALYST Just after the one year anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s murder, the Islamic Republic has reportedly sent yet another young Iranian girl to the hospital in critical...
View ArticleNUFDI Statement on 2023 Nobel Peace Prize
Washington, DC — The people of Iran have struggled for freedom and democracy and a return to dignity and progress for more than four decades. In that movement, the first and foremost victims of the...
View ArticleNUFDI Statement on Hamas Attack on Israel
Washington, DC — Today the terrorists that have been waging war on the people of Iran and the region for four decades have once again taken their brutal war to Israel. Iranian-Americans stand against...
View ArticleNUFDI Hosts UN Special Rapporteur on Iran Human Rights
Washington D.C. – The National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI) was pleased to host Dr. Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, at...
View ArticleBreaking the Trend: How to Combat the Hostage-Taking Business in Iran
NUFDI’s Senior Policy Analyst and the lead author of this report, Andrew Ghalili, with the support of the NUFDI team has spent the past several months studying and analyzing the troubling pattern of...
View ArticleImproving the Proposed “Iran Sanctions Enforcement Act”
Subject: Improving the Proposed “Iran Sanction Enforcement Act” From: Navid Mohebbi, Policy Director at National Union for Democracy in Iran Background: Recently, Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA) and...
View ArticleA Letter from Evin Prison: Mahvash Sabet
The Islamic Republic has “Disqualified” us Baha’is from Living When the revolution happened, I was 26 years old, working as the principal of a school in the south of the capital [Tehran]. One day, I...
View ArticleNUFDI 2023 End of Year Report
Read NUFDI’s 2023 End of Year report and Executive Summary from Dr. Saeed Ganji in both English and Persian, below, in addition to a a video highlighting the organization’s work throughout the year....
View ArticleIslamic Republic Proxies Attack U.S. Forces in Iraq, Syria, and the Red Sea
Andrew Ghalili, SENIOR POLICY ANALYST and Tymahz Toumadje, PROGRAM ASSOCIATE The Islamic Republic Navy opened 2024 by deploying the IRIS Alborz, an Alvand-class frigate, to the Red Sea via the Bab...
View ArticleThe Cost of Complacency: The Islamic Republic Gains as America Steps Back
By: Navid Mohebbi The Islamic Republic is besting the United States. Over the past two decades, as the American public has tired of engagement in the Middle East after it peaked in response to the...
View ArticleIslamic Republic Cracks Down, Sentences Activists to a Combined 100+ Years in...
Tymahz Toumadje, PROGRAM ASSOCIATE In recent weeks, the Islamic Republic sentenced numerous political dissidents to a combined 100+ years in prison. Those sentenced include several protesters detained...
View ArticleIslamic Republic Proxy Attack in Northeast Jordan Kills Three U.S. Troops
Andrew Ghalili SENIOR POLICY ANALYST Tymahz Toumadje, PROGRAM ASSOCIATE The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an Islamic Republic proxy militia, conducted a drone attack on a U.S. base at Tower 22 of the...
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