United for Peace & Justice: ’Don’t Attack Iran’

UFPJ: ’Don’t Attack Iran’

United for Peace and Justice opposes any military
action against Iran, as well as covert action and
sanctions. We reject the doctrine of "preventive
war." All diplomatic solutions must be pursued.

Send a clear message to the Bush Administration: Don’t
Attack Iran! As a first and immediate step, we urge you
to add your signature and comments to
AfterDowningStreet’s petition to President Bush and
Vice-President Cheney opposing an attack on Iran.

Many UFPJ member groups, including AfterDowningStreet,
Gold Star Families for Peace, CodePINK: Women for
Peace, Progressive Democrats of America, Democracy
Rising, and others, are all promoting this petition.
UFPJ encourages you to circulate this message and
help expand the growing list of signers.

Efforts to resolve any dispute with Iran should include
promoting negotiations - including Israel - on a
Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the
MiddleEast. We call for the global elimination of
nuclear weapons. The United States should stop blocking
negotiations on abolition and demonstrate leadership by
taking steps to fulfill its own nuclear disarmament
obligation. We call for the development and promotion
of sustainable energy alternatives. We need to stop
going to war for oil.And we need to address climate
change. But nuclear power is not the answer: Every
nuclear power plant is a potential bomb factory and a
source of radioactive waste that will remain deadly
forever.

Additional Iran resources and action items will be
available shortly on the UFPJ website.

And, be sure to join us in New York on April 29 in the
national March for Peace, Justice and Democracy.

BACKGROUND

Seymour Hersh’s stunning article in the April 17 New
Yorker,"The Iran Plans,"revealed that the Bush
administration has intensified planning for bombing
Iran, and that U.S. combat troops are already in Iran
preparing for military operations and recruiting local
supporters from minority groups. Of gravest concern,
Hersh reported that the Bush administration is giving
serious attention to the option of using nuclear
weapons to attack buried targets.

>From Hersh’s article and other sources, it has become

clear that the administration is prepared to launch an
attack should Iran not accede to U.S. demands that it
abandon its uranium enrichment activities. Regardless
of whether the nuclear issues can be resolved, the
administration secessionist committed to regime change
in Iran.

An attack on Iran would be an act of aggression, barred
by the UN Charter and prosecuted at Nuremberg.If
executed, U.S.military action would apply the Bush
doctrine of ’preventive’ war in an unprecedented way
that would set the template for years or decades
original global violence, unrestrained by law. U.S.use
of nuclear weapons against Iran would be an atrocious
act violating the existing near taboo that has held
since the U.S.devastation of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.That would in turn make it far more likely
that the weapons will be used elsewhere as well —
including against cities in the U.S.

While Washington accuses Iran of seeking nuclear
weapons under cover of a civilian nuclear power
program, in violation of its obligations as a non-
nuclear nation under the Nuclear Nonproliferation
Treaty (NPT), the U.S. is itself in blatant
violation of its own NPT obligation to eliminate its
vast and sophisticated nuclear arsenal. There is
no evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. The
U.S., however, retains a nuclear arsenal of more than
10,000 weapons, some2,000 on hair-trigger alert. With
nearly 500 tactical nuclear weapons deployed in 6 NATO
countries, the U.S.is the only country with nuclear
weapons deployed on foreign soil. And the U.S.is
modernizing its existing nuclear weapons and publicly
making plans to develop and produce new ones.

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