In the past week, the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans has come under increased scrutiny for publishing a badly written report concerning the impact

From 2008 to 2010 Rudi Bakthiar was the Director of Public Relations for PAAIA. Then she supposedly stepped down.  Now we know that she was

June 25, 2012 Mr. Tim Cook, CEO Apple, Inc. 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino, CA 95014 Dear Mr. Cook: On behalf of the Iranian-American community and

On Friday, almost 5 days after numerous media reports came out describing how Iranian-Americans were discriminated by Apple, PAAIA issued this “public statement” where it

At least someone has created humor out of this incident.  Note how many Iranian-American organizations, particularly PAAIA, are failing us.

It’s been over two days since news broke about Apple employees racially profiling and discriminating against Iranian-Americans.  And yet despite these manifest acts of discrimination,

This morning, as every Iranian-American knows, it was announced that Apple employees discriminated against Iranian-American customers because they spoke Farsi in their store.   NBC

Here’s a fact: a number of PAAIA leaders share close relationships with Iranian political figures in the U.S.  PAAIA members and the Iranian-American community at

In my most recent blog posts I have expressed my criticisms of PAAIA, an organization which claims to represent Iranian-Americans, as being ineffective and self-serving.

On June 2, 2012, Iranian.com published my blog post “The Problem with PAAIA”. PAAIA’s response to that posting, “Why PAAIA is Effective” was published on

In 2008, a group of individuals mostly composed of wealthy businessmen and lawyers came together and formed PAAIA, an organization which in its own words