Urge Michigan Senators to Vote FOR S. 1029 — to Block a War With Iran

By MUUSJN on Friday, June 28th, 2019

Call Our Senators This Friday

Gary Peters: 1-202-224-6221

Debbie Stabenow: 1-202-224-4822

Urge Them to Vote for S. 1039 to Block War With Iran
 

Background

The U.S. Senate is expected to vote this Friday on S. 1039, a bill called the “Prevention of Unconstitutional War With Iran Act of 2019” (Sen. Tom Udall, (D-New Mexico). This bill, adopted earlier in June in the House, is meant to cut off funding for a war in Iran.  The U.S. Constitution declares that a U.S. President cannot declare war without Congressional approval. We’re on the brink of a needless, destructive and costly war with Iran. Besides withdrawing from a 2015 nuclear arms containment treaty, which Iran has been in compliance with, the Trump administration instituted sanctions to cripple the Iranian economy. The U.S. deployed battleships and a battery of Patriot missiles off Iran’s coast.  Iran responded by shooting down a U.S.drone. President Trump claimed he exercised restraint by not attacking Iran. However, #45 ordered 1,000 more troops into the area, expanded economic sanctions on Iran’s leaders and said any Iranian attack on “anything American” would be “met with “overwhelming force” which could mean “obliteration”. 

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said this is a blind escalation with the hope that the Iranians will come to the table in the end or the hope that the Iranians will rise up and topple the regime”.  Senator Murphy further said the threats from Iran were a “predictable response to the Trump Administration’s attempt to squeeze Iran with severe economic sanctions and to isolate the regime diplomatically”. U.S. saber rattling has come perilously close to triggering an all out war. It violates common sense and undermines our core value of treating our fellow human beings with dignity. 

TELL OUR SENATORS:

  1. Speak on the Senate floor against a military attack on Iran
  2. Demand negotiations to prevent violence
  3. Vote for S.1039 to block a war with Iran.  

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