Iran

Washington, D.C. – We are deeply disappointed that Congress failed to pass a War Powers Resolution to stop President Trump’s illegal and immoral war on Iran. The House of Representatives voted 219 to 212 to reject a War Powers Resolution which would have withdrawn U.S. forces from hostilities against Iran. This follows a vote from the Senate 53-47 to reject a parallel resolution.

FCNL is firm in our opposition to the dangerous, illegal, and immoral war that the Trump administration has launched on Iran. This clear-eyed opposition to war has marked our work since our founding over eighty years ago.  

As a Quaker organization, we act as part of a long tradition of letting our lives and actions speak for peace and against war.  

Washington, D.C. – The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) strongly condemns the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran and the dangerous pursuit of a war of regime change.

In what may be the first time in history, a group of American Christian, Muslim and Jewish religious leaders have joined hands with Iranian Muslim religious leaders in a statement to call on their governments to negotiate with mutual respect to end the animosity between their countries and move to a genuine peace.

group of U.S. and Iranian religious leaders recently made a joint call for their respective governments, civil society organizations and other faith communities to avoid war and instead choose diplomacy, human rights and peace. The call could not be more urgent.

On September 24, I joined other peace colleagues for a meeting with President Mahmoud Pezeshkian of Iran. It was the fourth year I represented FCNL in a meeting with the Iranian President on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York and my second time meeting with President Pezeshkian, who was elected in 2024 after the more hardline President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash.

This week, the catastrophic suffering of Palestinians in Gaza reached “new depths” as mass starvation takes a heart-wrenching toll.

Faith leaders, lawmakers, rights groups, and other advocates are challenging the Trump administration over inhumane conditions at the Everglades Immigrant Detention Center.

The detention center, referred to by the grotesquely offensive name “Alligator Alcatraz,” is holding thousands of people detained in ICE raids across the country, many of whom have no criminal records.

Next week, the Senate is expected to vote on a bill with life-or-death consequences for millions of the world’s most vulnerable people.

Right now, the Trump administration is pushing Congress to cancel, or “rescind,” funding it has already directed towards life-saving foreign aid for people in need.

“I’m so scared. I can hear the explosions near our home,” my aunt in Tehran whispered to me, her voice shaking over the phone. “May God help us all for what’s coming.”