[LAAMN] NO WAR ON IRAN
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[LAAMN] NO WAR AGAINST IRAN! ~ Two Protests Happening This Saturday, February 4th ~ 12:00 Noon at Wilshire Western Metro Stop ~ And 2:00 PM at Westwood Federal Building ~ Who Is the Real Threat to P
NO WAR AGAINST IRAN! NO SANCTIONS - NO ASSASSINATIONS - NO INTERVENTION Two Protests Happening This Saturday, February 4th First Protest: 12:00 Noon at Wilshire Western Metro Stop in Los Angeles For Information Contact ANSWER Coalition: 213-251-1025 or: mailto:answe...@answerla.org answe...@answerla.org Second Protest: 2:00 PM at Westwood Federal Building 11000 Wilshire Blvd. (Corner of Wilshire Veteran) For Information Contact IAC: 323-306-6240 or: iacente...@peoplesmail.net LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD! NO WAR ON IRAN! Who Is the Real Threat to Peace? Fact: Iran does not possess a nuclear weapon. Fact: Iran has the right, according to international law, to develop nuclear energy for civilian use. Fact: Irans nuclear energy program is regularly monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Fact: Iran has never started a war. Fact: The United States possesses 10,600 nuclear warheads in its stockpile, 7,982 of which are deployed and 2,700 of which are in a contingency stockpile. The total number of nuclear warheads that have been built from 1951 to present is 67,500. Fact: The United States is the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons. It did so when it incinerated hundreds of thousands of Japanese people living in the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Neither city had any military significance. Fact: The United States has spent $7 trillion on nuclear weapons. The U.S. military budget for 2012 alone is about equal to Irans entire Gross National Product. Fact: Israel, the largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid (about $3 billion in 2011), unlike Iran, possesses hundreds of nuclear weapons. Fact: Israel, unlike Iran, refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) into Israel to monitor its nuclear program. Fact: There is active discussion in the Israeli media about whether Israel will carry out military strikes against Irans nuclear energy facilities. Israel bombed similar nuclear civilian energy facilities in Iraq in 1981 (Operation Babylon) and in Syria in 2007 (Operation Orchard). Fact: The United States and Britain used severe economic sanctions and CIA covert operatives to overthrow the democratically elected government of Iran led by Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953. The Iranian government under Mosaddegh had nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), which became known as British Petroleum (BP), in a campaign to use oil profits to eradicate widespread poverty within Iran. The successful CIA and British Intelligence coup détat put the Shah of Iran (King) back in power. The Shahs dictatorship denationalized Iranian oil and returned it to the ownership of British and U.S. oil companies. The Shah executed and tortured thousands during his 26-year bloody reign, which ended in the 1979 revolution that created the Islamic Republic of Iran. Fact: The United States broke diplomatic relations with Iran and has pursued a policy of economic sanctions against the country since the overthrow of the U.S.-backed Shah (King). Fact: Irans oil reserves are the fourth largest in the worldit has 12.7 percent of the worlds known oil reserves. That makes Irans oil reserves second only to Saudi Arabia in the Middle East, greater than those of Iraq. Fact: The new economic sanctions against Iran include a ban on the import, sale and trade of Iranian oil, which constitutes half of Irans Gross National Product. It forbids any company in the world that does any business with Iran or its Central Bank from having any trade or economic transaction with a U.S. bank or corporation. Fact: The economic sanctions are an effort to create economic suffering in Iran and to deprive the country of the goods and services to sustain life. According to international law, these economic sanctions constitute a blockade or an act of war against Iran even though Iran poses no threat to the people of the United States or Europe. WESTWOOD ACTION ENDORSED/INITIATED BY: * UNION OF PROGRESSIVE IRANIANS * INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER * CISPES * LATINO CAUCUS OF SEIU 721 * BAYAN-USA * ALBA U.S.A * FSLN (SANDINISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT) * SOLIDARITY WITH IRAN (SI) * PUERTO RICAN ALLIANCE * BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE MOVEMENT * SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IMMIGRATION COALITION * REVEREND DR. LEWIS E LOGAN II * OCCUPY4JOBS * WORKERS WORLD PARTY · The ANSWER Coalition is calling on everyone to join a demonstration or to organize one on the National Day of Action on Saturday, Feb. 4, to demand: No War on Iran, No Sanctions, No Intervention, No Assassinations. In Los Angeles, there will be a protest on Saturday, Feb. 4, 12 noon at the corner of Wilshire Western, near the Metro Stop (3790 Wilshire Blvd., LA 90010). · The U.S.-led campaign to bring about regime change is escalating. Just today, the European Union announced a complete
[LAAMN] No War with Iran - emergency demos called for Feb. 4
(please forward widely) Below is a statement by the UNAC CC on the assassination of Iranian scientists and the growing threat of war against Iran. Also, UNAC members participated in a national conference call on Tuesday with many other antiwar and Iranian groups. The meeting called for demonstrations on February 4 to protest the threat of war against Iran. Please join us on February 4 and plan a protest in your local area. There is a Facebook event for February 4 here: _http://www.facebook.com/events/214341975322807/_ (http://www.facebook.com/events/214341975322807/) Statement by the United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC) on the Assassination of Iranian Scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan and the Growing Threat of War Against the Islamic Republic of Iran Another Iranian scientist has been assassinated in Iran by a car bombing. This is the fifth Iranian scientist targeted in Iran during the past two years. This is a dangerous escalation of the covert activities conducted by the CIA and Israeli intelligence and their domestic spies in Iran against the government and people of Iran. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated, “I want to categorically deny any United States involvement in any kind of act of violence inside Iran.” However, both the Israeli and the U.S. governments have admitted to covert activity in Iran. Irrespective of the actors, the assassination of law-abiding scientists living and working in Iran is a reprehensible act that should be condemned by all. The fact is that the governments of the U.S. and Israel have declared Iran to be their enemy and have publicly stated that they will use all means possible, up to and including military attack, to stop the production of nuclear energy in Iran and to change the government of Iran. To this end, they have admitted to: 1 - Using hacking to disrupt nuclear energy facilities in Iran 2 - Conducting covert operations in Iran 3 - Deploying spy drones to Iran 4 - Imposing draconian sanctions and embargo against Iranian oil exports, banking and trade 5 - Deploying U.S. nuclear super carrier battle groups with destroyers and nuclear submarines to the Persian Gulf 6 - Threatening Iran with military attack 7 - Planning to hold in January the largest ever joint military exercises with Israel The assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists falls within the covert activities in disrupting nuclear energy production in Iran. In addition, it works to create an atmosphere of fear among other Iranian scientists who want to work in their field of study. This is similar to the right-wing assassinations of physicians in the U.S. who perform the procedure of abortion, which is legal in the U.S. The terrorists who kill scientists aim to make it difficult for the Iranian nuclear energy industry to find scientists who would work there. However, the people of Iran have repeatedly stated their resolve to defend their right to nuclear energy. Considering that Hillary Clinton threatened Iran with military attack, it is disingenuous for her to state that the U.S. denies involvement in any act of violence within Iran. A military attack on Iran, especially an attack on Iran’s nuclear energy facilities, would produce results similar to a nuclear attack. (U.S. Concerned Scientists report.) It would be the most violent act against the people of Iran, resulting in hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths. All the actions listed above, sanctioned by the U.S. government, are intended to weaken the Iranian government and economy, create an atmosphere of fear and dissatisfaction among the people, increase unrest, and decrease trust, all in the service of making it easier for a military attack on Iran. Of course, so far these actions have only strengthened the Iranian people’s resolve to protect their country against Imperialism. Similar U.S. actions are aimed at any government which fails to submit to the U.S. corporate domination. This disobedience or defiance by Iran is its real “crime.” It is extremely important that all international and especially U.S. antiwar and progressive organizations condemn these acts of assassination of innocent citizens as well as all forms of violent and aggressive actions by U.S. and Israel. 1- Condemn the assassination of Iranian scientists 2 - End all sanctions against Iran 3 - End covert activities inside Iran 4 - End all war threats against Iran “No war, No Sanctions, No Internal Intervention in Iran!” January 16, 2012 _click here to donate to UNAC_ (https://nationalpeaceconference.org/Donate.html) _Click here for the Facebook UNAC group_ (http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/unac1/) . Lee Siu Hin National Coordinator National Immigrant Solidarity Network _http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/) Action LA Network _http://www.ActionLA.org_
