Analyses & Perspectives

Gay Rights are Human Rights

Article I of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights says “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” In 2016, the UN’s Human Rights Council went a step...

Raisi, The Iran Lobby, and the Four Stages of Grief

The elections held by the Islamic Republic of Iran are not real. They are not free. They are not fair. And nothing changes as a result. Iran had one such “election” last Friday, in which Ebrahim Raisi, the butcher of Iran, was elected as the new president. It was, as expected, a mockery of...

Ebrahim Raisi, The Butcher of Tehran

Ebrahim Raisi has just been selected as the president of the Islamic Republic in Iran. While most officials in the regime have a long history of corruption and murder, Mr. Raisi’s track record of crim...

#IranProtests in Yasuj after Election Boycott

  Protests have spread throughout the Southwestern Iranian city of Yasuj as dissent continues to mount against the Iranian Republic’s widespread fraud in last week’s presidential election. Videos from inside the country appear to show hundreds of protesters, mainly youth, taking to the streets...

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 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...

Why America Should Hope the Regime in Iran Collapses

Originally published in The National Interest. In Vienna, the American negotiating team is busy snatching defeat from the jaws of victory as the Islamic Republic demands concession after concession f...

Welcome to Iran Uncensored

For more than four decades, as the Islamic Republic has waged a violent war on the people of Iran, it has waged an information war in the Western world. As each year of its reign of terror saps further legitimacy from the ruling clerics, its war of disinformation abroad has escalated. The goal:...

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...

Iran sanctions relief will continue funding the ongoing war in Syria

Originally published in the Atlantic Council's IranSource blog. The leaked audiotape of Islamic Republic Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has elicited much fanfare in recent weeks. Among the les...

State Dept. Refuses to Meet with Iranian-American Regime Opponents

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...