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10, PSR--in collaboration with the the Campaign for a New American
Policy on Iran--is promoting a "National Call-In Day on Iran". This
will be complemented by an exciting press event on Capital Hill.
event:
below is a call-in day alert; and information on specific
Senate and House bills that promote diplomacy with Iran (thanks
to WAND for bill language). Following that is an Iran
letter-to-the-editor that Philadelphia PSR's James Plumb got
placed in three suburban newspapers (an example of how you can
try alternative news sites for placement).
networks. Our coalition will be getting a count on calls we get into
Senators and House Reps so let's do all we can to create a deluge for
diplomacy!
National Call-In Day for Dialogue with
Iran
Tuesday, June
10th
who called for attacking Iraq now are raising the drumbeat for
military action against Iran. Despite the November
2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate concluding that Iran had halted its
nuclear weapons program, the Bush administration is bolstering its case for war
by labeling Iran one of the greatest threats to American
security.
Bombing
Iran would bring disastrous
consequences.
·The entire Middle East likely would descend into further violence
putting the well-being of
innumerable civilians at
risk.
·U.S. standing in the world would plummet and oil prices
would soar.
·A
U.S. attack would only strengthen hardliners in
Iran.
Current U.S. policies are not
working. Threats of military attacks and regime change,
while refusing to talk with Iran until they stop enriching
uranium is only heightening tensions.
Call
your Congressional Representatives on Tuesday, June 10th:
1-800-788-9372
·Tell them to work
for direct and comprehensive talks without preconditions between the
U.S. and Iran.
·The
U.S. and Iran share common interests in a stable
Iraq, Middle East and
Afghanistan.
·The
U.S. pursued negotiations with North Korea and
Libya - it's time to talk with
Iran.
____________________________________________________
Promote
Casey with bipartisan support, calls for the inclusive regional diplomacy
recommended by the Iraq Study Group to stabilize Iraq and the region and
facilitate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
The bill calls for a comprehensive diplomatic offensive with
bilateral, regional, and international dimensions that includes all of Iraq's
neighbors; and asks the president and secretary
of state to be personally involved in the diplomacy and to appoint a high-level
presidential envoy for the Middle East.
Urge your senators to cosponsor S. 2130. Ask
them to support what amounts to a dramatic reversal of the Bush administration
policy of exclusion that threatens more violence in Iraq and a wider war with
Iran
House Bill to
Promote
H. Con. Res. 321, introduced by a
bipartisan group of representatives including Wayne Gilchrest (MD), Elijah
Cummings (MD), Philip English (PA) and Jack Murtha (PA), calls for the inclusive
regional diplomacy recommended by the Iraq Study Group to stabilize Iraq and the
region and facilitate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
The bill urges the
administration to engage directly with Iran and Syria and implement a
comprehensive diplomatic strategy with bilateral, multilateral, and
international dimensions to stabilize Iraq and reduce regional tensions; and
urges sustained commitment of the United States to work with Iraq, the
neighboring countries, and the UN to cooperate in funding efforts for
reconstruction and relief to the Iraqi people.
Five former U.S. secretaries of state -- Madeleine
Albright, James Baker, Warren Christopher, Henry Kissinger, and Colin Powell --
have urged the U.S. to open a diplomatic dialogue with Iran. H. Con. Res. 321
would make clear that Congress expects no less.
_____________________________
PSR Letter to Editor-Doylestown
Intelligencer (also appeared in Bucks County Courier
Times and Burlington County Times .
War with
Iran coming closer?
June
4th
To the
Editor:
As difficult as it
may be to believe, it appears that President Bush may have already decided to
attack Iran. Following the president's recent visit to
Israel, a news report in the Jerusalem Post quoted a
“senior member” of the president's entourage as saying that Bush and Vice
President Dick Cheney “were of the opinion that military action was called
for.”
Despite the
administration's disowning of the story, this revelation follows a drumbeat
of recent threats and warnings about Iran that echo the same
false notes as the misstatement that marched the United States to war
with Iraq.
The November 2007
U.S. National Intelligence Estimate that concluded that Iran had halted its
nuclear weapons program has been summarily dismissed by the Bush administration,
and the case for military action has been bolstered with unsubstantiated claims
that Iran is a major threat to stability in Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan.
Seeing further military action in the Middle East as a cure for
ongoing violence is like having your physician recommend you deal with a cancer
diagnosis by smoking more cigarettes.
This is not to say
that there aren't real issues to be dealt with involving
Iran. But the threat of military force and use of economic
sanctions have only moved us closer to another war. It is time, as the
bipartisan Iraq Study Group suggested in 2006, for a new policy of direct talks.
The Bush administration has said it is willing to negotiate with Iran
but only after Iran stops enriching uranium. Such
preconditions prevent any real progress.
Bombing
Iran would have enormous human costs. It would likely
trigger revenge attacks against the United States in Iraq,
Afghanistan and elsewhere. The entire Middle
East would descend into further violence, putting the well-being of
innumerable civilians at risk. ?U.S. standing in the world
would plummet and oil prices would soar. A U.S. attack would only
strengthen hard-liners in Iran.
Direct, unconditional
and comprehensive talks between the governments of the United States
and Iran represent the only realistic way to resolve the nuclear
issue and other long-standing tensions that continue to destabilize the
Middle East.
Plumb MD
Doylestown
President
Philadelphia Physicians for Social
Responsibility
