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Marking the one-year anniversary of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), PAAIA commissioned Global Impact Strategies (giStrat) to conduct a scientific report on the implementation of the nuclear agreement between the P5+1 coalition (U.S., U.K., France, Russia, China, and Germany) and Iran. The report provides data-driven evidence and strategies to strengthen compliance on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

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The Rand Corporation released a comprehensive non-partisan report that explores a range of possible roles Congress could play in the implementation of a final nuclear agreement with Iran.  The report outlines Congress’s options for shaping the implementation of a nuclear agreement with Iran, and assesses the likelihood and impacts of each.

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This PAAIA report covers the three major waves of Iranian American immigration to the United States, explaining reasons for immigrating and obstacles encountered.  It also covers patterns and challenges of assimilation, revealing Iranian Americans to be very well-assimilated into American culture.

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The Atlantic Council’s Iran Task Force released a report reviewing ambiguities in the JPA and discussing various ways that the U.S. can reduce sanctions on Iran.

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This report, authored by Ramin Asgard, a former Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State, and published by PAAIA, makes the case for re-establishing a U.S. official diplomatic presence in Iran. It briefly explores the historic background contributing to the current lack of U.S. official presence in Iran, highlights the importance of an official U.S. presence to the Iranian American community, and outlines the reasons why an official U.S. presence is in America’s national security interest. In addition, the report explores the opposition, risks, and obstacles involved in re-establishing such a presence, offers a notional timeline and description of how an initial official U.S. presence in Iran could be re-established, and highlights lessons from U.S. diplomatic history as to how and why such a process might unfold.

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The Atlantic Council’s Iran Task Force recommends a long-term strategy that offers the Iranian government a face-saving exit from the nuclear crisis and seeks to lay the groundwork for better relations with the Iranian people.  The report calls for retooling sanctions to alleviate their impact on ordinary Iranians and to facilitate humanitarian trade and academic and cultural exchanges, as well as stationing American diplomats at an Interests Section in Tehran.

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The Fiscal Policy Institute’s Immigration Research Initiative released this report that looks at small businesses and immigrant small business owners.  It answers questions like: what is the role of small businesses in the U.S. economy?  What role do immigrants play in small businesses?  What immigrant groups are most likely to successfully own and operate small businesses?  What is the educational attainment of these immigrant business owners?

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The Unintended Victims report, which was a collaborative venture between the Asian Law Caucus, PAAIA, the Iranian American Bar Association, and the National Iranian American Council, examines the unintended, yet harsh, impact the sanctions have had, and continue to have, on Iranian Americans and other U.S. persons.

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The report, published by the Iran Project, does not advocate for or against sanctions; nor does it make specific policy recommendations. It seeks fact-based objectivity whenever possible in describing some of the implications for American interests of the international sanctions regime against Iran. In addition, it offers some general observations about the challenge of making sanctions work—that is, getting the greatest possible advantage from the sanctions imposed against Iran, while minimizing potential negative impacts.

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The report, built upon PAAIA’s Report on Iran Sanctions Legislation, 111th Congress, published in November 2009, includes a historical summary of U.S. sanctions, an overview of the additional sanctions imposed as well as certain other legislation under consideration during the 112th Congress, and a balanced review of available research assessing the impact of sanctions on achieving desired U.S. policy outcomes.

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The purpose of this PAAIA report is to outline the background and significance of some of the sanctions legislation under consideration in the 111th Congress.

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The objective of this Small Business Administration study is to provide a set of estimates of immigrant business owners in the U.S. economy.  Using data from three large nationally representative government datasets, this study also examine the contribution of immigrant businesses to the U.S. economy.

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The Iranian Studies Group at MIT has compiled socioeconomic statistics from the U.S. 2000 Census data that are of importance to the Iranian-American community. The statistics suggest that Iranian-Americans are among the most educated and successful communities in the U.S.

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The Washington Institute for Near East Policy investigated Iranian students studying in the United States, and while they only make up about 1% of international students studying here, they hold several notable distinctions. More than 80% study at the graduate level–the highest percentage of any country, more than 75% are enrolled in STEM fields, 56% study engineering, and the majority indicate a preference towards staying in the United States after graduation.