January 15, 2018 WASHINGTON DC: The American Mideast Coalition for Democracy (AMCD) fully supports President Trump’s effort to re-orient America’s immigration policy to a merit based system. For too long, America’s immigration system has been based on the benefit to the immigrants themselves rather than focusing on what is good for America. Our national immigration…

by Walid Phares (January 12, 2018) President Obama’s abandonment of Iranians on the streets of Tehran in 2009 was not some random tactical mistake; it was strategic policy that sacrificed democracy in Iran in order to establish an economic and political partnership with the regime, eventually the Iran deal. The mullahs were given the opportunity to crush the popular opposition, export…

by Kenneth R. Timmerman (January 3, 2018) U.S. government broadcasting is a powerful tool that can be used to promote freedom and bolster anti-regime protestors in Iran. After all, that’s why Congress has appropriated some $740 million per year to finance it. Promoting freedom and waging an information war on America’s enemies is in our…

December 30, 2017 WASHINGTON DC:  The American Mideast Coalition for Democracy (AMCD) applauds the proud Iranian people’s peaceful protests over the actions of the few non-elected, self-appointed Iranian regime officials. We encourage the Trump administration to extend active support to the large and growing secular element of Iranian society in their quest for freedom and…

December 7, 2017 Washington DC: The American Mideast Coalition for Democracy, representing Americans of many diverse Middle Eastern backgrounds, gives President Trump its support on his plan to move the US embassy and in recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. With this courageous move, President Trump has fulfilled his campaign promise and made good on Congress’s Jerusalem…

December 5, 2017 Washington DC:  The World Council of Cedars Revolution (WCCR) is calling for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to reject Gaby Issa as the Lebanese ambassador to the US. Issa was put forward by Michel Aoun, the current President of Lebanon. Aoun’s Free Patriotic Movement is allied with the Iranian terrorist organization, Hezbollah.…

by Hossein Khorram (November 27, 2017) I briefly met Jason Reza Jorjani at the Asian Ball during the inaugural festivities on January 20, 2017. He was cordial and seemed reasonable, but as with many people one meets briefly at social functions, I knew nothing about him, his writings or his political activities. He has since written…

October 13, 2017 WASHINGTON DC: The American Mideast Coalition for Democracy (AMCD) heartily endorses President Trump’s pending decision to decertify the Iran Deal. “The problem is not so much the deal itself, it is the behavior of the Iranian regime outside the deal,” said Tom Harb, co-founder of AMCD.  He continued, “As things stand, Iran…

by John Hajjar (October 10, 2017) As with many previous projections he has announced, many were criticized before being vindicated with time. Dr Walid Phares, a noted Middle East expert who served as an advisor to Mitt Romney and Donald Trump and has been a Transatlantic coordinator for almost a decade, was asked last November…

by John Hajjar (August 29, 2017) Propaganda wars by radicals often target their key opponents with smear campaigns with the goal of stripping the latter from their intellectual and political legitimacy and influence. Bolsheviks, Nazis, Fascists and Islamists have had one tactic in common over the decades: tarnishing the character of public figures, particularly writers…