Petition: Stop War on Iran! We, the undersigned, demand…

       Petition: Stop War on Iran!
       We, the undersigned, demand an end to the U.S. drive towards war with Iran. We oppose any
       military attack on Iran, whether by U.S. or by the U.S.-funded Israeli military. We demand an
       end to the U.S. campaign of lies, demonization, and sanctions directed at the people of Iran.

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Stop the war on Iran before it starts!                                   Iran's right to development and brought great suffering to the
                                                                         people.
It is with grave concern that we observe the growing threat of a
new U.S. war--this time against the people of Iran.                      It is essential that all voices opposed to the devastation of a new
                                                                         war in the Middle East speak out now. We urge an immediate end
The media is filled with reports of an alleged nuclear threat posed      to Washington's campaign of sanctions, hostility, and falsehood
by Iran and the assumed need for the U.S. to take military action.       against the people of Iran. We oppose any new U.S. aggression
These reports recall the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" stories           against Iran. We need funds for human needs, not endless war for
issued in the months leading up to the war on Iraq.                      empire.

In the lead up to the illegal invasion of Iraq, the Bush                 Initial Signers include:
Administration asserted that Iraq possessed massive stockpiles of        (partial list - to see an updated list, go to www.StopWarOnIran.org)
weapons of mass destruction and that it was capable of launching
an attack - nuclear, chemical and biological - on the U.S. within 45     Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Founding President, Pax Christi*
minutes.                                                                 Michael Parenti, author
                                                                         Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General
                                                                         Howard Zinn, author, historian
President Bush said that the U.S. had to attack immediately, and
                                                                         George Galloway, MP, Britain
could not "wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that could
                                                                         Tony Benn, MP, Britain
come in the form of a mushroom cloud." We all know now that this
                                                                         The Most Rev. Filipe C Teixeira, OFSJC
propaganda campaign was a complete fabrication created to justify        Denis J. Halliday, former UN Assistant Secretary-General
a war of aggression.                                                     Harold Pinter, 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature
                                                                         Margarita Papandreou, former First Lady of Greece
Now we see reports that are all too similar being made to justify        Ardeshir Ommani, American-Iranian Friendship Committee (AIFC)
military action against the people of Iran. Taking Iran to the UN        Prof. Ervand Abrahamian, Author, Between Two Revolutions
Security Council is a prelude for unilateral action. Just as in the      David N. Rahni, Professor and scholar, NY
case of Iraq, none of the claims made by the U.S. government stand       David Sole, President UAW, Local 2334*, Detroit
up to unbiased scrutiny. Iran has submitted to the most intrusive        Steve Gillis, President, USWA Local 8751*
and humiliating inspections, above and beyond what is required by        Hani Y. Awadallah, President, Arab American Civic Organization
Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). None of the              Larry Holmes, Troops Out Now Coalition
inspections have found any evidence that Iran is developing a            Dr. Barbara Nimri Aziz, Executive producer of RadioTahrir-WBAI-NY
nuclear weapons program.                                                 Brian Barraza, AMAT, Association of Mexican American Workers
                                                                         Sharon Black, All Peoples Congress
There is only one government that has used nuclear weapons               Leslie Feinberg, Lgbt Caucus Co-chair, Nat'l Writers' Union/UAW*,
against civilian populations, and that same nation has the largest       Jesse Lokahi Heiwa, QueerJustice.org
stockpile of weapons of mass destruction on the planet. Most             Imani Henry, Playwright/Performer
                                                                         Nellie Hester Bailey, Harlem Tenants Council
dangerous and incredible it is at this very moment developing a
                                                                         Fellowship of Reconciliation, Nyack, N,
new generation of tactical nuclear weapons that it intends to use, not
                                                                         John Bellamy Foster, Editor, Monthly Review*
merely to threaten. That country is, of course, the United States.
                                                                         Tiokasin Ghosthorse, First Voices Indigenous Radio
Shouldn't any real discussion of the dangers of nuclear weapons          Samia Halaby, Defend Palestine, NYC
include the weapons stockpiled by the Pentagon and the history of        Connie Hogarth, Director, Center For Social Action, Purchase, NY
U.S. aggression and interventions?                                       Nada Khader, Director of WESPAC* Foundation
                                                                         New England Human Rights for Haiti
Iran has suffered greatly at the hands of the U.S. We recall the U.S.    Rostam Pourzal, Iranian Cultural Association*, Washington DC
overthrew the democratically elected government of Dr. M.                Brenda Stokely, New York City Labor Against the War
Mossadegh and returned the Shah to the Peacock Throne ­ `the             Tony Van Der Meer, Prof. Univ. of Massachusetts*
proudest achievement of the CIA'. For 25 years the Shah ruled Iran       Michael Tarif Warren, Attorney
with an iron fist for the benefit of U.S. oil corporations before the    Dave Welsh, Delegate, San Francisco Labor Council, AFL-CIO*
people of Iran, in the millions, overthrew his tyranny at a terrible
cost in lives. For the past 27 years U.S. sanctions have impeded                                               *for identification purposes only