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Fwd: [bangla-vision] Solidarity Delegation to IRAN - Oct 9 to 15

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Subject: [bangla-vision] Solidarity Delegation to IRAN - Oct 9 to 15
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Solidarity Delegation to IRAN - Oct 9 to 15

Sara Flounders and John Parker, leaders of the International Action Center in New York and Los Angeles, will be joining a people-to-people delegation to visit Iran on Oct. 9. The purpose of the trip is to express solidarity with the people of Iran, in the face of continuing U.S. threats to attack a nation of 75 million people.

This tripâ€™s purpose is to publicize the following truths:

The people of Iran are not the enemies of the people of the United States;
The government of Iran is not a threat to the people of the United States;
The ominous war plans openly spoken about by the U.S. government place Iranâ€™s 75 million people and the people of the whole region in enormous danger.

Three years ago, the media reported that 10,000 sites within Iranâ€™s borders are programmed into Pentagon targets. The military-industrial complex has clogged the Persian Gulf with aircraft carriers, destroyers, cruise missiles and nuclear submarines. U.S. bases and air power ring Iran on all sides.

Recently Congress has increased and tightened the economic sanctions directed at Iran. This too increases the war danger. It cuts off normal trade and cultural relations. It prevents people-to-people contacts that can make it harder for any U.S. administration to wage aggressive war.

It is of utmost urgency to stop the possibility of an attack by the U.S. Armed Forces and to prevent the other likely scenario: a U.S.-supported attack on Iran by Israel.

The only possibility of peace is to mobilize the people of the United States to oppose the Pentagon's war plans.

This is an essential time to defend the right to speak out against criminal wars and to act in solidarity with all those who the Pentagon targets.

The growing bigotry and demonization of Muslims with in the U.S. is a result of the war climate. The Sept. 24 FBI raids and attacks on antiwar and solidarity activists in Minneapolis, Chicago, and other cities are a desperate effort to shut down all opposition by a government determined to wage war on the world. Such efforts will fail because today the overwhelming majority of the people in the U.S. are opposed to the disastrous and criminal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that the Bush administration justified with a collection of lies. They are even more opposed to a new criminal military adventure that will cause more suffering in the oil-rich region including the Middle East and Central Asia and will come home to us here.

In this time of endemic unemployment, the removal of U.S. workers from their homes through foreclosures and economic insecurity for tens of millions of people inside the U.S., it would be even more criminal to allow hundreds of billions of dollars to burn up in wars that wreak havoc on the people of the Middle East and Central Asia.

For the reasons discussed above, the International Action Center is taking part in this people-to-people solidarity delegation to Iran. Upon their return the delegates will be available for meetings, interviews and discussions. The International Action Center and its activists are determined to stand up to the U.S. corporate media's demonization of Iran, the lies and Pentagon threats and the drive for profits by the corporate elite.

We appeal to our supporters around the country and the world for the moral, organizational and material support that can make these efforts possible and can assure that they are effective.