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WASHINGTON – PAAIA was recently honored with a Telly Award for an advertisement produced with Savannah Communications, advocating for diplomatic efforts and the Iran Nuclear Agreement. The advertisement was released […]...
Irvine, CA – PAAIA recently interviewed Sean Panahi, an attorney and Democratic nominee for California’s 68th State Assembly district. The State Assembly is the lower house in California, which makes […]...
PAAIA is sad to announce the passing of Dr. Ali Javan. A respected and accomplished Iranian American physicist, Javan was a professor emeritus of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of […]...
WASHINGTON – On July 22, 2016, Iranian Americans from the Washington metropolitan area gathered to support state Sen. Jamie Raskin’s campaign for U.S. Congress. The event was organized by and […]...
Rostam Zafari is a 20-year-old Iranian American from Atlanta studying social entrepreneurship and creative writing at Emory University. He is especially interested in designing impactful solutions in the fields of […]...
WASHINGTON – On July 22, 2016, Iranian Americans from the Washington metropolitan area gathered to support state Sen. Jamie Raskin’s campaign for U.S. Congress. The event was organized by and […]...
WASHINGTON – Marking the one-year anniversary of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA) has commissioned Global Impact Strategies (giStrat) to conduct […]...
WASHINGTON – In an open letter to President Obama published July 12, more than 75 former government officials and private sector security professionals praised the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action […]...
WASHINGTON – On July 12, 2016, Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) introduced bipartisan legislation calling for the immediate release of Siamak Namazi and his father, Baquer Namazi, […]...
WASHINGTON – On July 13, 2016, the European Commission formally adopted a Communication about the visa reciprocity situation with the United States. Despite the visa reciprocity mechanism in EU law, […]...