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PEACE AND DIALOGUE, AIFC

Britain must act to prevent an attack on Iran 

Downing of Flight 655 was state-sponsored terrorism: analyst
Tehran Times Political Desk

TEHRAN -- The U.S. Navy’s guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes, shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf on July 3, 1988, killing all 290 passengers and crew members, including 66 children.

U.S. colonialism in Iraq
By Ardeshir Ommani

Bush moves to downplay rumors of war

Fallon’s Resignation: It’s All About Iraq
Ardeshir Ommani, March 18, 2008

    The Pentagon on March 11, 2008, announced a not-so-unexpected resignation of Navy Admiral William J. Fallon, head of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) in the Middle East, overseeing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and senior to General David H. Petraeus, the top American Army commander in Iraq, and slavish follower of President George W. Bush, whose plan is to continue the war even beyond the end of his presidential term.

     Fallon’s resignation actualized just a week after the appearance of an article in Esquire magazine that represented the admiral as the primary opponent of Bush’s war drive against Iran.  The article strongly implied that Admiral Fallon was the firewall against Bush’s plan to attack Iran and in his absence from the top military command, George Bush, along with General Petraeus, will now have a free hand in launching a war on read more...

Iran’s Parliamentary Elections

Ardeshir Ommani, an AIFC* News Analysis March 16, 2008

             The latest election for the Eighth Iranian Majlis (Parliament) took place on Friday, March 14, 2008, and according to Iran’s Interior Ministry, 65 percent of the nation’s 43 million eligible voters cast their ballots without the slightest disturbances or mishaps that are so common in many places during elections, not to mention the debacles in Florida’s 2000 and Ohio’s 2004 elections.  Iran’s turnout was 14 percent higher than in the 2004 Parliamentary elections when 51 percent of the voters participated, said Hassan Khanlou, the..   read more...

Visit Persian Mirror, an online magazine with art, literature, and news of, by and for Iranians.  This links to NEOCONS ON THE RUN, by Ardeshir Ommani http://www.persianmirror.com/Article_det.cfm?id=1976&getArticleCategory=41&getArticleSubCategory=3

Many of you enjoyed a slide presentation of direct action over the course of the past few years. This presentation is now available on youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVWlNQxjIsc. We urge you to spread this video far and wide!

March 19 is only a few weeks away. In order to ensure a cohesive and powerful mass mobilization, to have thousands on the streets on the first day of the sixth year of the Occupation of Iraq, it is important to come together again--to make suggestions, ask questions, and share concerns.  Another meeting has been called and there are two dates in order to accommodate everyone. We urge you to come to either or both of these meetings and to bring others.

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AIFC co-founder Ardeshir Ommani analyses U.S. foreign policy.....

It is well known that the hourly financial cost of the war in Iraq for the people of the U.S. is over $20 million.  And it is also well known that $240 million was more than enough to re-build the bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.  In other words, one day’s cost of the war in Iraq would have paid for reconstructing the bridge and prevented the deaths of 5 confirmed, eight missing people in Minneapolis, and of four American soldiers and 100 unarmed men, women and children in Iraq.  The logic that decides in favor of continuing the war and destruction is the logic of a social system that has gone parasitic and mad.

The American-Iranian Friendship Committee (AIFC) is proud to endorse the work of the newly formed Iranian-American Committee for Kucinich in the 2008 Presidential Campaign.  At this critical juncture when the White House, the major bulk of the U.S. Congress beat the drums of war against Iran, the support of patriotic Iranians and peace-loving Americans for Kucinich, the leading voice in the U.S. Congress for a just peace in the war-torn Middle East and for true economic and social progress at home, is vital.

THE PEOPLE'S PEACE DELEGATION TO IRAN  Co-sponsored by the Virginia Anti-War Network & The Richmond Defender newspaper July 20-30, 2007 http://www.vawn.org/    http://youtube.com/watch?v=-4nB_XezysU