Iran’s Green Movement Calls for Nuclear-Free Zone in Middle East

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Statement of the Coordinating Council of the Green Path of Hope

In the Name of God

The Green Movement of the People of Iran is a peaceful and civil movement that struggles for the realization of the Iranian people’s historical demands for freedom, justice, independence, development, peace and morality. As the detained leaders of the Green Movement, Mr. Mousavi and Mr. Karroubi, have emphasized in the Charter of the Green Movement, this movement calls for the elimination of tensions in international relations, a rational and honorable foreign policy for Iran based on constructive cooperation with the international community, rejection of adventurist diplomacy, and promotion of global respect for this great, historical nation.

The Coordinating Council of the Green Path of Hope, while expressing its deep concern about the increasing international tensions over Iran’s nuclear program, stresses that any form, or threat, of military attack on Iran constitues a grave danger to international peace and security. It can only intensify the pressures on the people of Iran and their freedom movement.

The Coordinating Council of the Green Path of Hope believes that international disputes must be settled by peaceful means, based on respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty of all nations, refraining from the use of force in international relations, non-interference in the internal affairs of countries, and a fair and balanced implementation of international law.

Given that the use of nuclear weapons is contrary to the principles of human rights and international humanitarian law, against the environment, and that their proliferation is in violation of international law, declaring the Middle East a Nuclear-Free Zone, removing all nuclear weapons from the region, and a comprehensive and fair implementation of the international non-nuclear proliferation treaties can play a determining role in reducing tensions in the Middle East and strengthening cooperation, peace and security around the world.

Ardeshir Amirarjomand, Spokesperson
The Coordinating Council of the Green Path of Hope
April 11, 2012 (Farvardin 23, 1391)

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Open Letter to the Government of the United States and the United Nations

Mr. Joseph R. Biden Jr.
President of the United States

Mr. António Guterres
Secretary General of the United Nations

The global spread of COVID-19 has exposed the illegal and immoral practice of imposing unilateral coercive measures (economic sanctions) by the United States government against more than thirty nations. The government of the United States is now using the public distraction caused by the pandemic to intensify its military actions against the targeted nations.

The economic war against those nations had already resulted in unimaginable suffering of the people in the targeted nations even before the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the devastation of the global pandemic, the targeted countries — especially Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Syria and Zimbabwe — are finding it prohibitively difficult to protect and save the lives of their citizens in the face of the ongoing global emergency. These sanctions constitute crimes against humanity.

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End its economic sanctions against all targeted countries immediately.
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Drop the baseless charge of “Drug Trafficking” against the President Nicolás Maduro and other officials of the government of Venezuela.
Respect the call issued by the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, for a global ceasefire.

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