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NUFDI to Biden: Use Frozen Assets for VaccinesPress Releases
Aug 16, 2021

NUFDI to Biden: Use Frozen Assets for Vaccines

Mr. President, The people of Iran are facing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. While the world struggles with COVID-19, the Iranian people are struggling under a regime condemning them to de...

Briefing on Iran ProtestsPress Releases
Aug 4, 2021

Briefing on Iran Protests

Washington, DC — On Tuesday, August 3rd the National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI) hosted a briefing with congressional staffers, leading think tank experts, and journalists from prominent inter...

NUFDI Welcomes New Policy FellowPress Releases
Jul 19, 2021·Navid Mohebbi

NUFDI Welcomes New Policy Fellow

Washington, DC — The National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI) is proud to announce Navid Mohebbi, a former Iranian political prisoner and longtime activist, as its newest Policy Fellow. Mohebbi wa...

Islamic Republic Threatens Activist on U.S. SoilPress Releases
Jul 13, 2021

Islamic Republic Threatens Activist on U.S. Soil

Washington, DC — The National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI) thanks the US Department of Justice for its investigation into a plot by the Islamic regime in Iran to kidnap and harm Iranian activis...

Iranian-Americans Mourn Jehan SadatPress Releases
Jul 9, 2021

Iranian-Americans Mourn Jehan Sadat

Washington, DC — NUFDI expresses our sincere condolences to the Sadat family on the passing of Mrs. Jehan Sadat, the women’s rights pioneer, a friend of the Iranian people, and former First Lady of Eg...

NUFDI's June EventsPress Releases
Jul 2, 2021

NUFDI's June Events

Washington, DC —The National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI) had the pleasure of hosting two highly successful events in mid-June. On the evening of Friday, June 18th — the date of the Islamic Re...

Massive Election Boycott in IranPress Releases
Jun 19, 2021

Massive Election Boycott in Iran

Massive Boycott Election in Iran Washington, DC – The Iranian people, in a historic rebuke of the Islamic Republic in Iran, led a massive boycott of the regime’s sham elections. Despite pleas from th...

Historic Summit of Iranian OppositionPress Releases
Jun 17, 2021

Historic Summit of Iranian Opposition

Washington, DC — On Friday June 11th, one week before the “elections” of the Islamic Republic in Iran, the regime’s notoriously fractured opposition gathered for a historic unity summit as a part of t...

NUFDI Condemns Anti-Semitic Attack on Iranian-American JewsPress Releases
May 20, 2021

NUFDI Condemns Anti-Semitic Attack on Iranian-American Jews

Washington, DC– The National Union for Democracy in Iran condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the racist and anti-Semitic attacks perpetrated against members of the Iranian-American Jewish commu...

NUFDI’s Letter to Clubhouse on Javad Zarif’s Abuse of the PlatformPress Releases
Apr 8, 2021

NUFDI’s Letter to Clubhouse on Javad Zarif’s Abuse of the Platform

Paul Davison Co-Founder & CEO Clubhouse Dear Mr. Davison, On March 31, 2021 the Islamic Republic’s Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, participated in a Clubhouse room entitled “Unsaid: The Memoran...

Letter to President Joe Biden on IranPress Releases
Feb 20, 2021

Letter to President Joe Biden on Iran

President Joseph R. Biden The White House Washington, D.C., 20500 Dear President Biden, Congratulations on your assumption of the presidency. We write as a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of I...

Al Qaeda Leader in IranPress Releases
Nov 14, 2020

Al Qaeda Leader in Iran

Washington, DC — Today the Islamic Republic in Iran’s long history of coordination with and support of international terrorist organizations was once again laid bare in a new report by the New York Ti...