Subject: SF Labor Council Resolution opposes US
military action against IRAN  -- ADOPTED 11-27-06
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:59:55 -0500

San Francisco Labor Council Resolution - Adopted by Unanimous Vote Nov. 27, 2006
     Resolution on Threat of Military Action Against Iran

   Whereas, no evidence has been offered that Iran possesses weapons of mass destruction, even after
many inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency; yet the Bush administration continues to
threaten aggressive measures against Iran on the grounds that Iran may be developing nuclear weapons;
and

   Whereas, the U.S. government seeks to impose U.N. sanctions on Iran for continuing to develop its
uranium enrichment program, which Iran asserts is strictly for non-military production of nuclear
energy. At least ten other nations enrich uranium in order to produce nuclear energy, and the US is not
threatening to attack them; and

   Whereas, Iran has signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty and was the first state to call for a
Nuclear-Free Zone in the Middle East; and 

   Whereas, Israel, Pakistan, India, North Korea, as well as China, France, the U.S., Russia, and Great
Britain -- all have nuclear weapons, with the U.S.possessing a larger stockpile than of all the rest
of the world combined; and

   Whereas, the U.S. government campaign against Iran's development of enriched uranium appears to be
much like the misinformation campaign waged by the Bush administration before the war on Iraq to
justify its unprovoked invasion and occupation of Iraq; now the Bush administration once again seeks
to stoke unjustified fears to win public support for military action against Iran; and.

   Whereas, the U.S. government has dispatched a Navy carrier group to the Persian Gulf off Iran's western
coast, as well as ships capable of mining harbors, for naval exercises that some observers believe
could serve as the prelude to an attack or other military action, such as mining Iran's harbors; and


   Whereas, published reports of  intelligence recently gathered by U.S. Special Operations forces
in Iran suggest that the U.S. has identified hundreds of targets in Iran, in preparation for a
possible military attack on that country; and

   Whereas, the U.S. government has a long history of  interference in the internal affairs of Iran,
including the well-documented CIA-engineered 1953 overthrow of Iran's democratically elected Prime
Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, who nationalized Iran's oil; and the US role in installing and backing the
brutal regime of the Shah of Iran;


   Therefore be it resolved, that the San Francisco Labor Council, AFL-CIO,  hereby declares its
opposition to U.S. military action against Iran, and urges all organizations with which it is affiliated
to demand that Congress take measures to prevent any such military assault, and rather, to promote
diplomatic non-military solutions to any disputes with Iran; and

   
   Be it finally resolved, that the San Francisco Labor Council join with other antiwar forces to
organize mass popular opposition to any military assault on Iran, and to respond rapidly should such
an assault occur.