Give diplomacy a chance

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Give diplomacy a chance
by admin
09-Oct-2007
 

We, the undersigned, represent the views of a diverse grouping of Iranian expatriates in the United States, the UK and elsewhere in the West.  Some of us have vastly different views regarding the current government in Iran; we are individually members of many different political parties; we do not all agree on how best to reach stability in the Middle East.  But we all feel a connection with both our homes in the West and the finest core values of the societies in which we are living, and with the country of Iran and its cultural traditions, whether we came by these ties by birth, heritage or friendship.

Moreover, we are united in our firmly-held opinion that military confrontation will do nothing to solve the problems that exist between Iran and the West, but rather that such an approach would create a ghastly long-term dynamic in the region.  Assaults, invasion, bombing, cross-border raids or destabilizing acts on the part of any of the players in the situation will mean that the present troubles will be eclipsed by far more destruction and loss-of-life than we have seen to date in the region.

The way forward must be through serious and genuine dialogue.  The rhetoric of mutual demonization, reckless threats and brinksmanship must be left out of that dialogue.  Negotiations must be based on the recognition of the legitimate concerns of all parties for physical security, economic security (including energy security) and national sovereignty. 

Just as stability and recovery in Iraq will not be advanced by sectarian strife that is a proxy for wider conflicts, neither will advancement of civil society in Iran be furthered by outside intervention.  Whether done with sudden, overwhelming and devastating force, or in a gradual, step-by-step series of increasingly invasive actions, a military assault on Iran would have catastrophic and long-lasting impacts on the people of Iran and prospects for democracy there, on the security of its neighbors including Israel, on US armed forces in the region and on US national interest and global standing, and on relations between the Muslim world and the West – already at an historic nadir.

We urge the leaders of the U.S., the U.K. and Iran to set aside all pre-conditions and resume direct and open negotiations on all issues of dispute, to bring about a lowering of tensions, to create an opening for meaningful progress toward understanding, and to envision a Middle East in which all its residents can coexist and together address the common problems of violence, poverty, illness and environmental degradation. 

We urge the people of the US, the UK and all countries in the Middle East - all men and women of conscience and character -- to press their leadership to be responsible and statesmanlike during this time of great danger, for it is the children, the innocents and civil society that always ultimately pay the price of our failure to do so.

For singing this statement as an organization contact:

CASMII (campaign@campaigniran.org)

NIAC (info@niacouncil.org)

 


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Einollah khareh

by Goozidam beh Einollah (not verified) on

I missed you out but I have reserved a special Gigantic Gooz for you. Here is to Einollah (Bagherzadah :)) BLAST!!!


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Goozidam beh harchi anit-war protester

by Goozidam beh anti-war protesters (not verified) on

The list is long but it includes, Q, Caspianmermaid, Foad, Anonymous1974, alimostofi, rezashirazi, No War, Lostidentity+, NIAC, CASMII, NIPOC, etc, etc. Goozidam beh yek, yek va beh hamatoon in total! You coward supporters of the criminal mullas! Do you care two hoots about the people who are right now in the IRI prisons under torture. Do they want this regime to continue torturing them until you dim wits decide enough is enough. You are not in pains are you? So why should you care?The people of Iran who have suffered under the IRI will never forget your treacherous collaborative activities. You will be flushed down the shit hole of history together with your partners in crime, the mullas. once again, Goozidam beh hamatoon.


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"Just say F**k 'em" to all who are advocating war

by Einollah (not verified) on

These are all good organizations who advocate for Iranians inside and outside Iran. Note to all who say Iranians are not united, no one is looking after us, we don't have a lobby, after 30 years Iranians don't have any organizations and so on. These organizations are here and are taking roots. Ignoring them and trying to re-invent the wheel won't stop them. As an example, just look at this website which is a good cross section of Iranians outside Iran. Blogs and articles are coming in one after another, so much so that you can't keep up with them and all the comments. They get archived as soon as they come in! Why, because we all think we have a better idea. With all these views, there is JJ who is our leader, whether we like it or not! if he folds this website, we'll loose the platform which we all share. As far as those advocating war and regime change, even with the disater in Iraq glaring, you can't change them. Don't waste your breath by writing articles or comment on their comments. All they do is spew profanities. So just say F**k 'em. If anything they've united Iranians and others about peace. They are such morons that are advocating war! Just say F**ck 'em and leave them alone to their misery.


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28 years is enough, we need REAL men with BALLS

by Khayedar (not verified) on

which you don't have, continue sucking Akhoond Jamaat dicks directly or indirectly.... your time will come.... PEACE WITH MULLAHS MY ASS


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Buy GOLD, the price will sky rock after bombing the nuke sites..

by za (not verified) on

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Calm down, they will just bomb the nuke sites

by jeeshdaram (not verified) on

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What you should not accept is an "Apartheid State"

by Ferdosi Lover (not verified) on

Reza, these shah, Pahlavi, kingdom supporters will remain Iranian forever. It is in their blood and they have read Ferdosi. Your way of thinking leads to genociding Iranians. This genocide of Iranian is a tribal Arab backward Islamists' trait and this is what Mullahs are doing in Iran.

Accept all Iranians since they come in all shades. You will find many colors between black and white. What you should not accept is an "Apartheid State", today's Iran under barbaric Islamist mullahs.


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Why peaCE?

by LostIdentity+5thColumn+traitors+..... (not verified) on

I vote to keep all these happy faces alive:

//florist.blogfa.com/post-6.aspx

Even 1 innocent casualty is more than what humanity can accomodate!


rezashirazi

are the Monarchists the War Mongers?

by rezashirazi on

from the comments that i see in here most of the Monarchists are the War Mongers and the support of the US attack, these people still wouldn't get it that the Shah is long gone and Iranian people wouldn't go back to the past. they themself don't even want to go and fight the regime and put their own life on the line and keep praying for US to do their dirty job. one thing i always thank the Mullahs is that they kicked these low life losers out of iran and left them to bark for ever.


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NO diplomacy with Islamic thugs.....

by mamali (not verified) on

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Talafate janghi ra addad bede!

by LostIdentity+5thColumn+traitors+..... (not verified) on

Dollarhaye nafti ra adad bede!
The war is in human genes; So is the peace; War is short-live, but peace is forever.
I choose Peace (wihin n' without)!


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Kenare ghoad beshin o begoo lengesh kon!!!!!

by LostIdentity+5thColumn+traitors+..... (not verified) on

I suggest all the warmongers to go in the front line and fight the war you are raising rather than putting US troops at agony as well as >2M Irani casualties;

Peace to All humanity
- What is your logic?


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Diplomacy & Akhoond.... what a joke

by Omar (not verified) on

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Iranian people wouldn't have

by yes (not verified) on

Iranian people wouldn't have done much without Pahlevi's proper leadership. What have Iranians done under mullahs?

The fact that you are against Pahlevi and not so against the islamic-fascists, tells a lot about you.

let's see who's better than Pahlevis, the mujahedine khalgh? the communist leftists? the arabo-seyyed and 40 dozde baghdad? the Ghajar? who the hell?

Last time Iranians thought they were doing the right thing, they took Iran and the future generation in a huge mess, and now all they can hope for is someone in the west helps them out. Witout the help of the west, the mullahs will remain in power for another 80 years.


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Stop creditting Pahlavis

by No War (not verified) on

Iranian people built IRAN NOT PAHLAVIs. It makes me sick to hear people credit shah and pahlavi with this and that. Iranian people made Iran great and it is still great. It's too bad there are traitors like Pahlavi who are still taken seriously.


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MARG BAR TALEBAN CHE KABOL CHE TEHRAN

by Dude (not verified) on

MARG BAR TALEBAN, CHE KABOL, CHE TEHRAN


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Are the messing with the US? come on!

by yes (not verified) on

For those who are saying that Reza Pahlevi only wants to make money by replacing the mullahs, let me tell you this, unlike the arabo-seyedd hungry dunky riders and their families, he's not interested in money, if it wan't because of his grandfather and father, you would have left Iran on Camels instead of a 'Tayareh' For the last 3 decades, you mulahs have been stealing Iran's money and spending largs part of it in supporting hezbolah, hamas and iraqi insurgents.... whereas the UAE is spending its money in creating an state of the art region, that attracts investment and non-oil related trade. Very soon we'll see you arabo-muslim aftabebedastan, being nuked by our best allies which are the US and Israel. The first place to be bombed: the shrine or (goore) that half indian half arab son of a bitch of Khomeini, followowed by every single hole where the mullahs are hiding, once we take over, then we'll pursue cleaning Iran of their bacterial presence, sending them to Iraq, Palestine and Arabia, where their hungry ansestors came from.


Q

This is great, I love it!

by Q on

I put this out on some college networks and by now there are hundreds of Iranian-American students linking to it. Nothing like these fascist comments to help these kids see just what the other side of this debate is really about.

 

When you are confronted with such absolute hatred as "bomb bomb Iran," it's really easy to see who really cares and who is simply power hungry in the Iranian community. Thank you for recruiting for the anti-war cause!

 

Message to younger people and others. Please support the organizations above with your help and financial contribution, otherwise, you might end up with some of the people below as an alternative!


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Anything short of massive bombardment of

by A man with massive goodies (not verified) on

the mullahs, the IRGCs, their infrastructure, mosques, and the supporters of mullahs (e.g., Q, Al Foad, etc.)is not acceptable!

Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, the Islamic Republic.


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YOU CAN"T DO SHIT ABOUT IT... GET USED TO IT

by Yazid (not verified) on

Severe sanctions are on their ways and those nuke sites will be bombed, and you Islamo cock supporters of the regime can't do shit about it. If innocent people suffer, it would be less suffering than the hell they are in right now...


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Islam is the disease in Iran, you have to cut the roots

by Anonymouss (not verified) on

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Sanctions hurt average people NOT the rulers!

by Anonymous1974 (not verified) on

Have you not learned anything?! The rulers of the country are largely immune from sanctions, because of their economic and political connections. Sanctions might even HELP the IRI because it makes people more dependent on the government for rations and handouts of goods and services. After all the suffering that sanctions caused in Iraq (and still didn't cause the regime to collapse), how can any Iranian support sanctions against Iran?

As far as "Islamofascists", please find a new propaganda line. It was Reza Shah's regime which was the most pro-Hitler. Also, the fascist-inspired parties in the Mideast (the Lebanese Phalangists, Baath, and SSNP) were founded by Arab Christians or Zionist Jews (like Ze'ev Jabotinsky) and NOT Muslims. Are you really so desperate for your candidate (Rajavi, Pahlavi, Ehud Olmert, George Bush or whoever) to crush Iran that you would be willing to make the Iranian people suffer?


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No War, No Sanctions

by No War (not verified) on

It would be fun to see reza pahlavi types come back and get what they deserve: DEATH. He is an enemy to Iran and only wants to make money off of Iranian people - wait he already has done that with Israelis. No war, no sanctions - get your hands off of iran!


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No dumbass

by Jesus (not verified) on

I don't fall into any of your categories. I am a secular democrat. We need to strangulate the mullahs, so we don't have to put up with islamofacist thugs like you in SAVAM who are 100 times worse than savak. Who do you think trained SAVAM? It was many of the same savakee personnel. I don't support Israel, I can careless about Israel, and what it does. I am sure Palestanians and arabs can very well take care of themselves, it is not in my place.
I like Iran to be free, and mullahs to be gone, if that means doing something that the Israelis like, well that is coincidence, it is not because I am protecting Israel. Evin prison is also alive and well, and more execution and torture is going on in there than ever before. I am sure that makes you extremely happy.


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You want "extreme sanctions", you want war? Remember the 1980s?

by AnonymousIranian (not verified) on

The mad dogs barking for sanctions fall into 3 categories: 1) Rajavists who are disappointed that Saddam could not help them come to power in Iran, despite the fact that they fought on his side; 2) Elements of the former Pahlavi regime, in particular propagandists of the Amir Taheri type, who are using their connections with the U.S. and Israeli governments and intelligence agencies; and 3) Iranian neocons who will support anything the U.S. government does, because they think it's their only chance to sit in the Niavaran Palace and run Evin Prison again--like they did in the old days.

The pro-war and pro-sanctions people posting on this website are propagandists and sympathizers of the Israeli regime. Public opinion polls show that a majority of people in EVERY country in the world (INCLUDING the U.S.) oppose attacking Iran, except for one country: Israel. These lowlifes support attacking Iran and/or strangulating it through sanctions just so Israel can start training SAVAK agents again.


Q

Dear Yes, are you serious?

by Q on

Were you in Iran during that time?

 

It was miserable. Sick people were not getting basic medicines. Everything was rationed: milk, meat, eggs. Together with black-outs and water shortage, it was pure misery. I have gone back to Iran several times and things are like day and night compared to the 80s. If "real" sanctions are supposed to be even worst, than PLEASE have the humanity to reject sanctions.


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To Q

by yes (not verified) on

We have never had a very severe and extereme economic sanctions. Those sanctions rou're referring to weren't real sancions. This time nobody will deal with them, no EU and no other nation. China and Russia will follow suit. Diplomacy was the mask of their pupet khatami, we want the nasty rotten islamic regime to be destroyed in all dimensions, we don't want another Egypt or Lebanon. The diplomacy idea does not go with current mafia ruling Iran.


Q

Jesus/Yazid: Don't be rediculous. Iranians everywhere reject war

by Q on

I have never heard of Iranians inside Iran who want war, I have heard of many who would like honest diplomacy.

 

Are you people so arrogant as to risk bombing our fellow citizens just to stick to your idealistic notions of "no diplomacy."

 

We have not had diplomacy for 28 years, what has that done to the regime? We had an 8 year bloody war, did it change the regime? There was serious "mohasereye eghtesadi" in the 80s, did it HELP or HURT the Mullahs?

Please, wake up. Dont' be a tool, an ideological soldier of the neocons who are just looking for Iran's oil. They HAVE and WILL make deals with the Mullahs if it suits them, they don't need your permission. It has nothing to do with the 'support' of iranians. The only thing we have the capacity to do is to stop them from bombing Iran.

 

Iran's government is Iran's business, not Americas. Bombing will kill innocent Iranians and it should be opposed. It is the biggest danger to the people of Iran. Can we agree on this much?


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28 Years is ENOUGH for diplomacy, which never works with Akhoond

by Yazid (not verified) on

28 years and no luck from inside Iran, have you heard:
"AKHOOND K SAWAR SHOD NEMETONI PEYADASH KONI" if the west does nothing these Islamo thugs will continue sucking the blood of Iranians. If you guys think Ebadi and puppets like her will change anything, either you are dumb or a member of IRI and afraid of losing your ass. I hope they start the bombing by hitting Khomeini's tomb


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Right on, YES my brother

by Jesus (not verified) on

Here is the issue, most of these peace loving, and as you called them romantic hafez readers who want to pursue diplomancy have not, and do not live in Iran. Actually most of the young ones were born here, and the rest like the Daniels, and Ulrichs with hyphenated names were out of the country long before the revolution. These people can not in their worst nightmare imagine the brutality of the regime.
We are not talking about the disciplined british soldiers of the 1950's in India where a peace movement had a chance. We are talking about people who burned Rex down just to come to power. We are talking about people who have exectured 12 year old girls, hang 16 year old girls in public, and have killed and buried their own(mullahs) in the central deserts of Iran.
As you have described the mullahs so concisely, they are like Mafia, with one difference, the loyalty you might get from a mafia family, that does not even exist within them. These are not the people you can sit down with and negotiate. They will waste your time, and continue doing what they are.
It is past negotiation time, and it is time for action. I like your idea, there has to be consequence for the decisions and actions of IR. You kill people, one of your top guys will be hit. Believe me, these degenerate mullahs are used, and very fond of the biblical rule of an "eye for an eye". Go after the leadership, put severse financial sanction on the country, and cut of the gas export to them.