Congressman Barrett, The National Iranian American Council and the Iranian-American community is outraged by your plan to reintroduce legislation mandating the deportation of thousands of Iranian students and workers who came to this country legally in search of education, liberty, and a better way of life. The Stop Terrorist Entry Program (STEP) Act would [...]

  Congressman Introducing Legislation to Bar & Deport Iranians from U.S. Written by David Elliott Thursday, 07 January 2010 Washington, DC – Congressman Gresham Barrett (R-SC) has announced his intention to reintroduce legislation that would prohibit "the admission of aliens from countries designated as State Sponsors of Terrorism as well as Yemen to the United [...]

  Stop Congressman Barrett’s Bill to Deport Iranians Written by NIAC Staff Thursday, 07 January 2010 Washington, DC – If you are an Iranian in the US on a work visa or a student visa, Rep. Gresham Barrett (R-SC) thinks you are a national security threat and should be deported. Rep. Barrett announced this week [...]

  Iran places trust in ‘passive defense’ By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON – The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Iran had "quietly hidden an increasingly large part of its atomic complex" in a vast network of tunnels and bunkers buried in mountainsides. The story continued a narrative begun last September, when a second Iranian [...]