Iran

The Iran Sanctions Bill we wrote about in December has passed the Senate in a unanimous voice vote late January. It must now be reconciled with the House version before it can become law. Because [...]

I always appreciate a chance to increase public debate, so I was pleased to discover (via a post on our Facebook fanpage) that Republican candidate Diggs Brown decided to post his response to our [...]

Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted 412-12 (with 4 members voting “present”) to pass the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act, a broad, aggressive sanctions bill that few if any [...]

The generous view of President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is that it honored his stated intentions to promote international peace and was meant to spur him to significant achievement. [...]

Throughout the year, we have worked to oppose broad, unilateral sanctions on Iran. I have made the case many times on this blog that these sanctions will not only fail to elicit positive changes [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYKfcXB5zZw] Like just about everybody, I am a huge fan of The Daily Show‘s political analysis and incisive humor. So I was excited when, soon after [...]

Two key committees in Congress have marked up Iran sanctions legislation, getting out in front of the Obama administration as it continues to pursue negotiations: Asked during a CNN interview [...]

President Obama’s being awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace has elicited all kinds of responses from peace activists, especially in the Peace Action family, which is great! We’ve gotten [...]

I did an email interview last week with Kourosh Ziabari of Foreign Policy Journal about my trip to Iran and the current state of US-Iran relations. Kourosh Ziabari: Like many Americans who have [...]

Peace Action would encourage our supporters to read Peace Action West’s Rebecca Griffin’s latest OpEd in the San Jose Mercury News. The piece titled “Sanctions on Iran would [...]