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DESCRIPTION:Talk and discussion with a UK anti-war activist, Abbas Edalat, co-founder 
 of the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran 
 (CASMII) - http://www.campaigniran.org.  Join the American Friends Service 
 Committee Middle East Peace Education Program to hear about the anti-war 
 movements in the UK:  *** Stop the War Against Iran Before It Starts! ***  
 Located between Mission and Market Streets, two blocks from the Civic 
 Center BART/MUNI (go west one block and on 9th St. go south one-half 
 block). Parking after 7 pm on side streets or out front: cheapest pay 
 parking lot behind 65 Ninth St accessed by going south on 8th St and right 
 on Mission and then half-block take a right) Another pay parking lots 
 across the street on west side of 9th St.    Background:  The US and Israel 
 government leaders have openly and repeatedly made threats of military 
 action for a change of regime in Iran since George W. Bush.s January 2002 
 State of Union Speech which labelled Iran as part of the axis of evil. A 
 regime change in Iran is in accord with the neo-conservatives grand plan of 
 the Project of the New American Century of which the present disaster in 
 Iraq is the first major outcome. While Mohammad Khatami, the then Iranian 
 President, was urging a dialogue among civilizations, President Bush.s call 
 for a crusader war instigated a massive campaign of demonization of Islam 
 and Iran in the western media. Based on a long category of blatant 
 untruths, half-truths, distortion and double standards, the US government 
 accuses Iran of a host of charges including support for Palestinian 
 .terrorism., support for Al Qaeda, interference in Iraq and support for the 
 insurgents, and above all a covert nuclear weapons programme. In recent 
 weeks, the remarks of Ahmadinejad, the new Iranian President, about Israel 
 and the Holocaust have played strongly into the hands of the Israel and US 
 governments which have fully exploited these remarks to prepare the world 
 public opinion for imposition of UN sanctions against Iran. Such sanctions 
 will be the prelude for a military attack which can lead to a fully fledged 
 new war in the Middle East, even more horrifying than the present situation 
 in Iraq and threatening peace and stability all around the Middle East and 
 beyond. It has even been reported by the American Conservative that the 
 Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney.s 
 office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command to use tactical 
 nuclear strikes against Iran. This report has not been denied or commented 
 by the Pentagon; see http://www.amconmag.com/2005_08_01/article3.html  
 Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII), 
 http://www.campaigniran.org, was launched on December 1st 2005 to build an 
 effective international opposition to the US and Israel war drive against 
 Iran. CASMII.s most important achievement so far has been to persuade the 
 International Peace Conference held in London on December 10th to pass an 
 additional resolution to .call on the anti war movement all around the 
 world to oppose any attack against Iran or Syria.. See 
 http://www.campaigniran.org/press_releases.asp  Professor Abbas Edalat is a 
 co-founder of CASMII    source: 
 http://www.payvand.com/news/05/dec/1255.html\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/01/84173.php
SUMMARY:Stop the War against Iran, before it starts!
LOCATION:ALTERNATIVES TO WAR FORUM: JANUARY 4, 2006  7 P.M., 65 NINTH STREET  SAN 
 FRANCISCO
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/01/84173.php
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