Huffington Post:
Sina Toossi in an analyst focusing on the Middle East and Iran. He holds an MA degree in international affairs from American University’s School of International Service, with a regional concentration in the Middle East. His writings have appeared on ThinkProgress, Foreign Policy in Focus, and LobeLog, among other publications. He tweets @SinaToossi.
For the Iranian-American community, Donald Trump’s inauguration bodes the end of an era where a U.S. president commemorated their new year, paid attention to their concerns and desired to engage, not spur conflict, with their homeland.
Though heavily affected by U.S.-Iran tensions, Iranian-Americans have struggled to translate their impressive education and financial power into political influence in Washington. While many within the community have long called for a counterbalance to the unbridled influence of groups stoking perennial U.S.-Iran conflict ― often in line with hard-line pro-Israel, Saudi and MEK-aligned Iranian opposition goals ― reticence to engage the policy-making process is still prevalent. However, the successful fight for the Iran nuclear deal demonstrated that Iranian-Americans finally have a voice in Washington. The question is: How can this voice be maximized?
The impending Trump administration threatens many long-fought-for Iranian-American gains, particularly but not limited to the nuclear deal. The specter of Trump ― who on separate occasions has promised to “dismantle” or “renegotiate” the nuclear deal and has thus far assembled a cabinet and national security council dominated by vociferous anti-Iran hard-liners ― has some worried he may even provoke a war with Iran. If the deal is to be preserved, a catastrophic war averted and potential institutionalized discrimination from the demagogic Trump prevented, it is imperative for the Iranian-American community to further empower itself...
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Iranian Americans should Shut the F@Ck Up
They betrayed themselves in the process
Iranians back home don't care about what they say or think given that most of these EYE Ranians are Bee Hovyat Sell Outs to the Islamic Republic which sent there parents to exile.
You EYE RANIANS don't matter in Iran's future.
They think they can set up a Lobby like the Jews in the US ... Dream On !
Unlike EYE RANIANS ... American Jews are Ba Hovyat and loyal to the foundations of their country and loyal to their roots.
EYE RANIANS are not !
And the US can never have the so called "special relationship" with Iran even in a Post IRI Iran as Isreal or the UK have with the US.
The Islamic Republic which the EYERANIANS legitimized is here to stay and you will have to live wiht the embarrassing dichotomy of drawing fake parrallels between the IRI democracy "hardlinenrs" and the US "Hardliners" for another decade to say the least but nothing is going to change.
Not only you won't end up with a Democracy ... let alone the Treacherous "Secular Republic" of your dreams but you will see IRan detach itself from the American sphere of influence in order to embrace the Russian Oligarchs and Asian allies.
In the meantime You EYE RANIANS can stick to your disingenuous Bee Hovyat "Globalist" identity and dreaming of your Nowrooz Parties in the White House !
The Party is Over !