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I accompany a group of fellow concerned Americans, and as Americans our message to you is:

• Act to rescind the July 2007 Lieberman amendment to the Defense Authorization Act (S.Amdt.2073).
• Pass an Act of Congress stating that the 2001 AUMF (Authorized Use of Military Force) does not authorize a preemptive strike against Iran (or a strike in response to an alleged provocation).
• Cut off funding for any war with Iran not specifically authorized by Congress.

As Iranian-Americans, our message to you is:

Since 2003, as a result of jingoisms such as “Shock and Awe”, “Mission Accomplished”, “Guantanamo” and “Abu-Ghraib”, much of the world has come to better recognize the American character as that of a morally bankrupt, self absorbed bully. That is where American imperial and colonial attitudes takes you.

In 2007, instead of listening and learning, the Cheney-Bush regime wants to expand their botched colonial war to include Iran. The bully better stop. Enough jingoism. Enough saber-rattling.

The blowback of America’s CIA coup in 1953 in Iran – which overthrow the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister, Mossadegh – was a successful Iranian revolution and the deactivation of the American embassy in 1979. The very same American embassy inside of which the 1953 coup was planned and executed. Since 1979 Iran is an independent, sovereign nation. Iranians are well aware of American imperial and colonial intentions. Iranians are capable and prepared to defend their independence and freedom.

Any sort of military adventure by America and/or Israel against Iran will likely prove very costly for the bully.

Since 2003 Americans have done a great deal of additional harm to Iraq and Muslims. You Americans already have enough blood on your hands.

Don’t mess with Iran.

Respectfully Yours,

Mohsen Banan