UCD: War on Iran - What is the Truth Behind the Crisis?

dublin | anti-war / imperialism | event notice Monday February 04, 2008 18:31 by pat c

Meeting: Thursday 7 February 1pm in room C214, Arts Block , UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4.

Speaker: Torab Saleth.

Torab Saleh leading Iranian socialist, political activist and founding member of ‘Hands off the People of Iran’ (HOPI) will speak on the nature of the Iranian regime, the relationship with the United States and the real reasons for going to war.

The recent stand-off in the Strait of Hormuz shows that tensions still run high between the United States and Iran. The threat of war has definitely not gone away. In fact war in the form of sanctions has intensified. But it is not the Ahmadinejad government that is suffering. Sanctions hit the poorest and the most vulnerable, never the elite. The people of Iran are suffering, not their rulers.

HOPI defends the Iranian people, not the regime. In this presentation, Torab Saleh looks at the nature of this regime and its relationship with the United States. He describes the history of the current conflict and goes behind the current media speculation to explain what is really going on in the Middle-East.

Torab Saleth is an Iranian socialist who took part in the Iranian revolution in 1979. In exile he became the editor of the journal 'Socialism and Revolution'. He is currently on the editorial board of the journal Critique and a prominent member of Workers Left Unity Iran

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