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 Stop Nuclear War With Iran! April 13, 2006 5:26 AM

Stop Nuclear War With Iran! We weren't able to stop the last war, but we must stop the next one…NOW! The United Nations, which is the mandated to uphold international law, must speak out against the Bush Administration's plans. Let's send a collective letter to Secretary General Kofi Annan imploring him to denounce this threat and call for a diplomatic solution. Click here to sign on and/or send your own, and pass it to friends and family around the world. Let's let the Bush administration and Kofi Annan know that the world is demanding an end to this madness!

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 April 13, 2006 10:59 AM

signed.thanks for posting! ))  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
 
Good idea April 13, 2006 11:40 AM

It seems like its a game now to keep hurting the people in this region. Its getting to be a new game for politics these days.  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
 
 April 14, 2006 3:12 AM

Thanks, Marc! Here is another petition by Greenpeace, and some music links/video clips sent by Michael, thanks...

US nuclear warplans against Iran
 
There are 480 US/NATO nuclear weapons in Europe. Send a message to the Defence Ministers of Germany, UK, Belgium, Netherlands and Turkey to ask that they not allow the US to use millitary bases or US nuclear weapons based in their countries or otherwise aid in a nuclear strike on Iran.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/nuclear/disarmament/us-nuclear-warplans-against-ir

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 April 14, 2006 3:31 AM

These are other petitions opposing nuking Iran.  It's even ridiculous to just talk about using nukes, but they are actualy thinking it might bring a sollution to the problems they themselves created. Bomb everything, when nothing is standing anymore, we won.

http://stopwaroniran.org/petition.shtml

http://political.moveon.org/dontnukeiran/?id=7311-6713437-URCk8.9A21FfUA1Hq52vJA&t=2

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Physicists: Take the Nuclear Option Off the Table!Wednesday, April 26 April 24, 2006 7:04 AM

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/index.php?id=P2732

Sun Apr 23, 2006
Physicists: Take the Nuclear Option Off the Table!

Jorge Hirsch writes:

"Together with 12 of the nation's most eminent physicists, I recently wrote to President Bush to tell him that to plan for the use of nuclear weapons against Iran is gravely irresponsible. We asked him to publicly take the nuclear option off the table.

"President Bush has not responded. Perhaps he did not receive the letter, so we will bring it to him in person.

"On Wednesday, April 26, 5 p.m., at Lafayette Park across from the White House, I will read the letter in public, as well as a supporting petition by over 1,900 physicists repudiating the new U.S. nuclear weapons policies, and then deliver these documents to the White House.

"Please come and join us [.pdf] if you support this effort, and please help spread the word."

The letter is reproduced below.

      April 17, 2006
      The Honorable George W. Bush
      President of the United States
      1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
      Washington, D.C. 20500

      Dear Mr. President:
      Recent articles in the New Yorker and the Washington Post report that the use of tactical nuclear weapons against Iran is being actively considered by Pentagon planners and by the White House. As members of the profession that brought nuclear weapons into existence, we urge you to refrain from such an action that would have grave consequences for America and for the world.

      1800 of our fellow physicists have joined in a petition opposing new U.S. nuclear weapons policies that open the door to the use of nuclear weapons in situations such as Iran's. These policies represent a "radical departure from the past," in the words of Linton Brooks, National Nuclear Security Administration director. Indeed, since the end of World War II, U.S. policy has considered nuclear weapons "weapons of last resort," to be used only when the very survival of the nation or of an allied nation was at stake, or at most in cases of extreme military necessity. Instead, the new U.S. nuclear weapons policies have significantly lowered the threshold for the potential use of nuclear weapons, as clearly evidenced by the fact that they are being considered as another tool in the toolbox to destroy underground installations that are "too deep" to be destroyed by conventional weapons. This is a major and dangerous shift in the rationale for nuclear weapons. In the words of the late Joseph Rotblat, Nobel Peace Prize recipient for his efforts to prevent nuclear war, "the danger of this policy can hardly be overemphasized."

      Nuclear weapons are unique among weapons of mass destruction: they unleash the enormous energy stored in the tiny nucleus of an atom, an energy that is a million times larger than that stored in the rest of the atom. The nuclear explosion releases an immense amount of blast energy and thermal and nuclear radiation, with deadly immediate and delayed effects on the human body. Over 100,000 human beings died in the Hiroshima blast, and nuclear weapons in today's arsenals have a total yield of over 200,000 Hiroshima bombs.

      Using or even merely threatening to use a nuclear weapon preemptively against a non-nuclear adversary tells the 182 non-nuclear-weapon countries signatories of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty that their adherence to the treaty offers them no protection against a nuclear attack by a nuclear nation. Many are thus likely to abandon the treaty, and the nuclear nonproliferation framework will be damaged even further than it already has, with disastrous consequences for the security of the United States and the world.

      There are no sharp lines between small "tactical" nuclear weapons and large ones, nor between nuclear weapons targeting facilities and those targeting armies or cities. Nuclear weapons have not been used for 60 years. Once the U.S. uses a nuclear weapon again, it will heighten the probability that others will too. In a world with many more nuclear nations and no longer a "taboo" against the use of nuclear weapons, there will be a greatly enhanced risk that regional conflicts could expand into global nuclear war, with the potential to destroy our civilization.

      It is gravely irresponsible for the U.S. as the greatest superpower to consider courses of action that could eventually lead to the widespread destruction of life on the planet. We urge you to announce publicly that the U.S. is taking the nuclear option off the table in the case of all non-nuclear adversaries, present or future, and we urge the American people to make their voices heard on this matter.

      Sincerely,

      Philip Anderson, Nobel Laureate, Physics
      Michael Fisher, Wolf Laureate, Physics
      David Gross, Nobel Laureate, Physics
      Jorge Hirsch, Professor of Physics
      Leo Kadanoff, National Medal of Science, Physical Sciences
      Joel Lebowitz, Boltzmann Medalist
      Anthony Leggett, Nobel Laureate, Physics
      Eugen Merzbacher, President, American Physical Society, 1990
      Douglas Osheroff, Nobel Laureate, Physics
      Andrew Sessler, President, American Physical Society, 1998
      George Trilling, President, American Physical Society, 2001
      Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate, Physics
      Edward Witten, Fields Medalist  [ send green star]
 
Action Alert from Greenpeace : don't nuke Iran May 03, 2006 2:44 PM

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/nuclear/disarmament/us-nuclear-warplans-against-ir Just copying the alert-message : Hello, I'm Donna Mattfield, a peace and disarmament campaigner with Greenpeace International in Amsterdam. I'm writing to you to ask for your help in creating a pre-emptive peace strike. You may have read in the news recently about revelations that the United States is considering plans for a nuclear strike on Iran. I know I'm not alone in thinking this is an insane way to tell a country that it's wrong to develop nuclear weapons. And where would these weapons come from? The type of weapons the US are including in their plans could be among those stored in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and the UK. Join me in asking for a simple assurance from the NATO countries which host American nuclear weapons that they'll not endorse or cooperate with a pre-emptive nuclear strike on Iran. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/nuclear/disarmament/us-nuclear-warplans-against-ir When I first heard that the US still maintains 480 nuclear weapons in NATO bases in Europe I was shocked. I find it hard to comprehend that in 2006, 16 years after the cold war ended, those of us who live here are still sitting on such a dangerous legacy. The Bush Administration can't treat Europe as a convenient parking lot for its destructive missiles. The situation in Iran brings home a very scary fact: the Bush administration could implicate independent European nations in a war that shuns diplomatic solutions and invites retaliation, with or without the consent of the countries that host those nuclear weapons. It doesn't have to be like this. Join our campaign to eliminate the threat altogether by calling for the US to take back and dismantle its nuclear weapons from Europe and Turkey altogether, and to begin the work of creating a nuclear free zone in the Middle East. The choice is simple: a world in which everybody is threatened by nuclear weapons, or nobody is. I know which world I want to live in. Thank you for your support, Donna  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
 
Sorry Youni May 03, 2006 2:47 PM

Didn't check out well enough the preceding messages, posted the Greenpeace alert before signing the petitions I didn't know of ... You can delete these two posts of mine. Dweezzzz  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
 
 May 03, 2006 3:37 PM

I just received the message from Greenpeace, repeating, It is just fine, you are an example to us!!  [ send green star]
 
anonymous  October 26, 2006 6:09 PM


War with Iran - Say No!

Sign Petition Opposing Attack on Iran
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/iran

No War on Iran! No Nukes!
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Thanks Dear Friends November 08, 2006 12:05 AM

Actually I have been disappointed about peace groups before. Because most of western people just think about peace  for themeselves and just focus on their benefits.But It looks that there are still understanding people there who are not against us.Thanks a lot again .God Bless all of you.

From Iran with peace and love

Mehr Iranmehr

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! November 21, 2006 7:29 AM

Great petition!!!!
Signed of course!!

IRAN-for you  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
 
 November 22, 2006 12:48 PM

Dear Adi

   Thanks a lot for signing the petition and Thanks a lot for the nice flower.warm Hellos and many beautiful flowers from Iran to you .

Love and Peace

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