Teacher’s Workshop on Iran
A Successful PAAIA Initiative for Educating American Educators
From July 8 to 11th, PAAIA sponsored the Summer Teachers Workshop, an annual event organized by the World Affairs Councils of America. Each year, twenty high school teachers from across the country are accepted to partake in a three-day emersion program concentrating on a particular region or country. This year the focus was Iran - its constitutional history, rich heritage, and perhaps even more pertinent to today’s political arena - insight into contemporary Iran. The lectures largely concentrated on the changing mentality of the Iranian population, all the while rooted in Iran’s dynamic history. Through the Workshop, the teachers were given a sense of a progressive Iranian population, one that seeks restored dialogue with the West.
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Senator McCain's Iran "Joke" Raises Concern
Washington, D.C., July 10, 2008 . - At a campaign event on July 8, Republican presidential candidate Senator McCain reacted to a question referring to an increase in U.S. cigarette exports to Iran during the Bush administration by saying, "Maybe that's a way of killing them." Having elicited some chuckles from the audience, he quickly added that he "meant that as a joke!"
Members of the Iranian American community, many of whom still have family and friends in Iran, justifiably find Senator McCain's remarks, even as a joke, offensive and insensitive, and believe such remarks are simply not constructive in the face of the volatile state of U.S. - Iran relations.
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PAAIA and IAPAC Merge
Merger will advance the best interests of the Iranian American community by greatly enhancing its effective participation in the American political process
July 8, 2008 -The Iranian American Political Action Committee (IAPAC) and the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA) jointly announce an agreement to merge the two organizations, making IAPAC the affiliated political action committee of PAAIA. The merger of IAPAC and PAAIA represents an unprecedented milestone for the Iranian American community, demonstrating that two existing organizations can and should come together for the greater good.
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