Press Release – NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION ON IRAN

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Feb. 2, 2012

CONTACT:
Chris Ernesto
727-504-8929
chris@stpeteforpeace.org.

NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION ON IRAN: No War, No Sanctions, No Intervention, No Assassinations!

St. Petersburg, FL – On Saturday, Feb. 4, antiwar activists, Occupy protestors and other people of conscience will gather in over 55 U.S. cities to demand “NO War on Iran!” and to say:

- “They lied about Iraq, they’re lying about Iran!” Just replace “Iraqi WMDs” with “Iranian nuclear weapons” and it’s the same formula.

- Even top U.S. officials admit Iran is not building nukes: On Tuesday, CIA Director David Petraeus told the Senate Intelligence Committee that Iran is not building nuclear weapons.

- Even if Iran were pursuing nuclear weapons, the U.S. has no right to take military action against it, given the U.S. has (and has used) nuclear weapons. “Do as I say, not as I do” is the ultimate hypocrisy.

- The U.S. is threatening Iran, not vice-versa, and it already has Iran surrounded. The U.S. has either a military presence, or influence in the countries nearest Iran (Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and Israel.) Additionally, the U.S. has two aircraft carriers in the gulf as a “reminder” to Iran (and a third is on its way.)

- The U.S. has been inside Iran for years: The U.S. supports the MEK, a terrorist group (according to the U.S. State Dept.) to sow chaos in Iran; the CIA has been conducing “black ops” inside Iran for years; and this past December, Iran shot down a CIA drone that was in Iranian airspace.

- Finally, the U.S. has a long history of aggression towards Iran, including the CIA coup of Iran’s democratically elected leader in 1953; supporting Saddam Hussein’s war on Iran in which hundreds of thousands of Iranians died; and the USS Vincennes shooting down an Iranian passenger jet killing all 290 people on board.

Tampa Bay action details:
MARCH ON MACDILL – CENTCOM, Tampa, FL
Saturday, February 4
Noon to 2pm
Rally at Gandy Blvd & Dale Mabry Hwy, then head to MacDill for the march.

Endorsing organizations include (LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS IN BOLD):
World Can’t Wait * United National Anti-War Coalition * International Action Center * ANSWER Coalition * Antiwar.com * Peace of the Action * Women Against Military Madness * St. Pete for Peace * The Refuge * NatureCoast Coalition for Peace and Justice * Citizens Coalition for Police Accountability * Veterans for Peace Tampa Bay * Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign * American Iranian Friendship Committee * CODEPINK * Decentralized Non-Violent Resistance Movement * Free Speech Project * Socialists of Greater Tampa Bay * Occupy Tampa * Occupy St. Pete

FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://stpeteforpeace.org, and for sources visit http://stpeteforpeace.org/iran.talking.points.html.

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