Dear Friend,

On behalf of everyone here at the American Iranian Council, we wish you a happy Nowruz!

Nowruz is the first day of spring and the first day of the new Iranian calendar year, which will be 1397 on March 20 (2018).  Nowruz has been celebrated for over three millennia, and Iranians of all religious and ethnic orientations share in the joys and prosperity it promises.  
 
The year 1396 was an especially difficult period in US-Iran relations marked by (i) uncertainty over the future of the JCPOA, (ii) concern over growing “Iranian influence” in the region, (iii) US support for Iranians protesting economic and social conditions, and (iv) the continued implementation of a US travel ban on Iranians, among other significant matters.