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Action Tools

Iran Action Pack: Actions to take, why to take them, resources to help you

NGO Letter to Governments advocating a non-violent solution.

Appeal issued by the Middle Powers Initiative, "US/Iran Confrontation: Intensified Diplomacy and Adherence to International Law," 20 September 2007

Letters to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Opposing Referring Iran to the Security Council
Reaching Critical Will Letter to the IAEA opposing referral to the Security Council

Greenpeace Letter to the IAEA opposing referral to the Security Council Referral

Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy Letter to the IAEA opposing referral to the Security Council

RCW and LCNP legal and political analysis and talking points on Iran and Conflict Resolution

Featured Comments

The city of Gary, Indiana (USA) passed a resolution ensuring that no preemptive military attack by the United States against Iran takes place. Organized by the Northwest Indiana Coalition Against the Iraq War and introduced by Councilman Charles Hughes, the City of Gary has passed the most common-sense strategy to deal with Iran. The resolution called for Congress to:

1. Ensure that no preemptive military attack by the United States against Iran takes place.

2. Make clear to the administration that such a preemptive attack has not been authorized by any law, resolution, court ruling or article of the Constitution.

3. Support diplomatic engagement with Iran.

4. Maintain pressure against all escalations of war in the Middle East.

Read more at AlterNet.

Articles

Stay up to date with the Iranian issue on DisarmamentActivist.org and Iran Daily Opinion Service.

Rebecca Johnson, "Intelligence on Nuclear Weapons," Disarmament Diplomacy, Issue. No 86, Autumn 2007.

Erik Leaver, "Midwest City Fights Back Against Iran War-Mongering," AlterNet, 14 December 2007.

Jeffrey Lewis, "Don't Politicize the NIE," Arms Control Wonk, 7 December 2007.

Alexander Koldobsky, "Outside View: Iran war dangers," United Press International, 30 November 2007.

Carah Ong, "War Is Peace, Sanctions Are Diplomacy," Middle East Report Online, 23 November 2007.

Michael Barker, "Manufacturing Consent for World War III," GlobalResearch.ca, 22 November 2007.

Tad Daley, "America's Shocking Nuclear Hypocrisy," AlterNet, 9 November 2007.

Michael Spies, "Nuclear Proliferation," First Committee Monitor, 15-19 October 2007.

Michael Spies, "Nuclear Proliferation," First Committee Monitor, 8-12 October 2007.

Jeffrey Lewis, "Tech, Politics and Perspective On Iran," Arms Control Wonk, 24 May 2007.

Paul Kerr, "More Thoughts on IAEA Iran Report," Total Wonkerr, 24 May 2007.

Paul Kerr, "First Thoughts on IAEA Iran Report," Total Wonkerr, 23 May 2007.

Jeffrey Lews, "Iran Making Progress," Arms Control Wonk, 23 May 2007.

Jeffrey Lewis, "Iran Enriching "On Industrial Scale"," Arms Control Wonk, 9 April 2007.

Jeffrey Lewis, "Iran's Centrifuge Operations," Arms Control Wonk, 6 April 2007.

Noam Chomsky, "What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico?: Putting the Iran Crisis in Context," ZNet, 5 April 2007.

Michael Spies, "(Speculative) Thoughts on the Iran “Hostage” Crisis," DisarmamentActivist.org, 31 March 2007.

Michael Spies, "The Security Council and Iran: Further Escalation and Isolation," Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, 21 March 2007.

Jofi Joseph, "Strategic Mistake," Democracy Journal, Issue #4, Spring 2007.

Michael Spies, "Iran and the Role of the Security Council," Lawyers' Committe on Nuclear Policy, 8 March 2007.

Paul Kerr, "Wankery, Department of," Total WonKerr, 27 January 2007.

Jane Vaynman, "Trouble for Ahmadinejad," Arms Control Wonk, 24 January 2007.

Paul Kerr, "Iran's Centrifuges Exploded...," Arms Control Wonk, 19 January 2007.

Michael Spies, "UN Security Council Escalates Nuclear Situation with Iran," Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, 10 January 2007.

Michael Spies, "The Phantom Threat," DisarmamentActivist.org, 30 October 2006.

Keith Putnam-Delaney and Paul Ingram, "Resolving the nuclear dispute with Iran by negotiation," BASIC Notes: Occasional Papers on International Security Policy, 31 August 2006.

John Burroughs and Michael Spies, "Commentary on Security Council Resolution 1696 on Iran," Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, 31 July 2006.

John Burroughs and Michael Spies, "Commentary on the Possible Security Council Resolution on Iran," Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, 26 July 2006.

Ian Davis and Paul Ingram, "New Proposal to Iran: Will It Be Enough to Defuse the Nuclear Crisis?" BASIC Notes: Occasional Papers on International Security Policy, 9 June 2006.

International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, Statement, 24 May 2006.

Michael Spies, "The Letter," DisarmamentActivist.org, 18 May 2006.

John Burroughs, "DeFazio: War on Iran is up to Congress, not President," Disarmament Activist, 7 May 2006.

Michael Spies, "Undeclared Nuclear Activities and Outstanding Issues: Clean Bill of Health?" Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, 4 May 2006.

John Burroughs, "British/French Draft Security Council Resolution on Iran," DisarmamentActivist.org, 3 May 2006.

John Burroughs, "The Iran Situation: Options for the Security Council," Remarks to Diplomats Representing Some Elected Members of the Security Council, 2 May 2006.

Michael Spies, "Iran's Overhyped Nuclear Progress," DisarmamentActivist.org, 20 April 2006.

John Burroughs, "The US and Iran: Time to Talk," DisarmamentActivist.org, 18 April 2006.

John Burroughs, "Hersh's Bombshell," DisarmamentActivist.org, 8 April 2006.

LCNP, "The Iran Nuclear Dilemma Draft Elements: Points and Recommendations," Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, 20 March 2006.

LCNP, "Iran and the Security Council: Points and Recommendations," Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, 28 February 2006.

Michael Spies, "ElBaradei Steps Over the Red Line," Disarmament Activist, 21 February 2006.

Michael Spies, "Limits of the Non-Proliferation Regime - And why Multilateralism is the Only Solution," American University International Law Review Annual Conference, 9 February 2006.

Michael Spies, "Reporting Iran to the Security Council," Disarmament Activist, 1 February 2006.

John Burroughs, "Hans Blix on Iran," Disarmament Activist, 26 January 2006.

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, "Iran & The Bomb 3: Strike options," ArmsControlWonk.com, 23 January 2006.

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, "Iran & the Bomb 2: Iran's Missiles," ArmsControlWonk.com, 22 January 2006.

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, "Iran & the Bomb 1: How Close Is Iran?," ArmsControlWonk.com, 19 January 2006.

Gordon Prather, “Referring Nuke-Threats to Security Council,” Antiwar.com, 10 December 2005.

Gerald M. Steinberg, "Can Diplomacy Still Prevent Iran from Going Nuclear?" Jerusalem Issue Brief, vol. 5, no. 11, 1 December 2005.

Paul Kerr, "IAEA Unlikely to Refer Iran to Security Council," Arms Control Today, November 2005.

Michael Spies, "The Iranian Nuclear Dilemma: Referral to the UN Security Council?", Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, 27 September 2005.

“Iran’s Nuclear Programme: EU-3 Snubbed as Iran begins Uranium Conversion at Isfahan,” Disarmament Diplomacy, Autumn 2005.

Joseph Cirincione, “A Critical Conference,” testimony before the Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation, 28 April 2005.

Steven C. Welsh, “Iran’s Nuclear Program and International Legal Instruments: IAEA Statute,” Center for Defense Information, 24 November 2004.

Revati Prasad, “Iran’s Programs to Produce Plutonium and Enriched Uranium,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 14 October 2004.

Michael Donovan, “A Transatlantic Approach to Iran,” Center for Defense Information, 13 August 2004.

George Perkovich and Silvia Manzanero, “The Global Consequences of Iran’s Acquisition of Nuclear Weapons,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, April 2004.

David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, “Iran, player or rogue?” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 59, no. 05, September/October 2003.

Web Resources

Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy: WMD Possessors and Aspirants: Iran

Arms Control Wonk: Iran

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Iran

British American Security Information Council (BASIC): Nuclear and WMD

Disarmament Activist: Iran

Federation of American Scientists (FAS): Iran’s Nuclear Weapons

Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) Nuclear Abolition Project

Global Security.org: Nuclear Weapons – Iran

Greenpeace International: End the Nuclear Threat

Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies (IDDS) Nuclear Proliferation: Middle East