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Learn About Iran
 
Published in National Geographic Magazine, this is an exceptionally well-written and insightful piece on Persian culture in Iran. 2008
 
Iran was number eighteen on the list.
 
A monthly photo blog by a former Los Angeles resident who recently moved to Tehran.
 
Peace group finds a culture that belies many American presumptions. 2006
 
American actor Sean Penn writes about his first trip to Iran. 2005
 
An article by Jo-Anne Hart, a Middle East security specialist, professor and consultant to the U.S. Army. "Iran is an auspicious case for a nonmilitary U.S. approach to security." 2005
 
Larry Diamond, Michael McFaul, and Abbas Milani are fellows and coordinators of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. McFaul is a member of The Washington Quarterly’s editorial board. They explain "why engagement, not isolation, works." 2007
 
 
 
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Each year the Fellowship of Reconciliation, an interfaith nonprofit organization with offices in over forty countries around the world, sends peace missions to build people-to-people relationships between the people of the U.S. and the people of Iran, and to develop a community of grassroots civilian diplomats in North America.  
 
A transpartisan coalition of diverse groups which share the objective of promoting responsible and effective U.S. diplomacy and leadership in resolving long-standing tensions between the U.S. and Iran.
 
Iran Diplomacy Bill, H.R. 5056
Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) has introduced a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives that calls for easing tensions and normalizing relations between the United States and Iran.