Growing Threat & Deadline meets growing opposition

mmovahed
by mmovahed
29-Jul-2008
 


The on-line petition for the fictionalized movie "300" received over 55,000 signatures, the issue of "Arabian Gulf" instead of "Persian Gulf" tallied over 855,000 signatures (mine included).

Currently, the "Stop war on Iran" in over a month has attracted less than 6000 signatures.

Tell me what's wrong with this picture??

It seems as a community we are only interested in "soft" issues and we swarm each other's e-mail boxes with repeated requests to take actions, or simply we have lost our senses in differentiating what is more critical and urgent matter over others.

Last Sunday, I met Nasim and Jafar, the Iranian couple whose journey has taken them thousands of miles across the globe by bicycles in pursuit of peace and humanity especially between Iran and U.S. 

in March of 2003, some Iraqis danced in streets of Detroit when their country was overrun, in hopes of "freedom" and "democracy" and now they have regretted.

No matter how differently each one of us feel about Iran, war is an abyss with no end in sight, just look at our neighbors, let's try to stop this potential war before it starts.

PS. It seems though, there are more non-Iranian signatures than Iranian's on this petition!!

//stopwaroniran.org/petition.shtml

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Mehdi-Palang

thank you for putting this up

by Mehdi-Palang on Wed Jul 30, 2008 07:09 AM PDT

thanks for raising awareness to this issue.


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afshin

War

by afshin on Wed Jul 30, 2008 05:28 AM PDT

I'm not sure the issue can be confined to one of complacency.  The fact remains that in spite of rhetoric on both sides, the likelihood of war is minimal at best, hence the lowered sense of urgency.  And let's face it, if the US found it in its interest to attack Iran, no matter how many signatures you gathered it wouldn't matter.  In fact I remember in the run up to the Iraq invasion millions protested on the streets of America and across the globe to no avail.  The issue cannot be compared to the Arabian Gulf misnomer or the movie 300.  The targets of those campaigns were private corporations with financial vestitudes.  On the other hand when the interests of a government are involved they rarely listen to their own people, let alone the people they plan on invading.  While I admire your dedication to this worthy cause, perhaps you'd feel inclined to channel your efforts to something more plausible and equally deserving.  Perhaps reproachment between the two countries of the United States and Iran to avoid conflict in the first place.


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