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John,
My name is Nasrin Rahimieh, and I serve as a member of NIAC’s Community Council. In my professional life, I am the Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities and Associate Dean in the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine.
Much of my academic work has focused on modern Persian literature, Iranian cinema, and the experiences of the Iranian diaspora, fields shaped by the trauma and displacement of conflict.
I joined NIAC’s Community Council because I believe our community must have a voice in the policy decisions that affect our lives and the lives of those we love. And that voice could not be clearer today.
In NIAC’s newly released, comprehensive poll of Iranian Americans conducted with YouGov, a majority (53%) oppose U.S. military action against Iran [[link removed]] , with more than a third (37%) strongly opposed. These numbers confirm what so many of us have long known in our hearts: the Iranian-American community does not want another war. We know its costs too intimately.
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I recommend you read the poll results [[link removed]] . Our community supports diplomacy. We support peace. And we support organizations like NIAC that have worked tirelessly in Washington to translate these values into action, whether by mobilizing against sanctions and military escalation, or by working with lawmakers to prevent another catastrophic conflict in the region.
NIAC’s anti-war advocacy reflects our lived experience , our moral clarity, and our refusal to be used as a wedge in a foreign policy debate that too often erases the people at its center.
I hope you will take a moment to explore the findings from this poll and consider what they tell us, not just about the moment we are in, but the future we can still shape.
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Nasrin Rahimieh
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