[Peace-discuss] Our alert: "Iran cooties"

[Robert Naiman]

We're trying the "short subject line" this time. That seems to be what the
cool kids do.

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*Urge President Obama to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the
UN next Tuesday.*
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 In international diplomacy, gestures matter. This is particularly true for
efforts to promote real diplomacy between the United States and Iran.

For three decades, the United States has mostly pursued an “Iran cooties”
policy. We can’t meet with Iranian leaders, because someone might interpret
that to mean that we think that the Iranian government is “legitimate.”
OMG! We might get Iran cooties!

It sounds ridiculous, and it is. And it has a real cost in human lives.
Because of the "Iran cooties" policy, it’s harder to use diplomacy to end
wars in the Middle East, like the Syrian civil war.

On Tuesday, President Obama has a historic opportunity to end the “Iran
cooties” policy. Iran’s newly-elected, pragmatic, pro-diplomacy President
Hassan Rouhani is going to be at the United Nations General Assembly. So is
US President Barack Obama.

Here are *three things you can do* to help try to get President Obama to
put the "Iran cooties" policy to rest:

   1. *Sign a petition urging Obama to meet Rouhani at the UN.* MoveOn
   member Sara Haghdoosti has set up a petition at MoveOn urging President
   Obama to meet President Rouhani on Tuesday. You probably know that a key
   reason we were able to block the U.S. bombing of Syria is that MoveOn got
   engaged in opposition to the bombing. Now we’re trying to engage MoveOn is
   promoting U.S. diplomacy with Iran. Can you help us spread the message by
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   2. *Watch and share the video, "Give Peace a Dance."* Sara’s not the
   only one of our friends urging President Obama to meet with President
   Rouhani. Our friends at the Ploughshares Fund asked Iranian-American
   comedian Maz Jobrani and Jewish-American comedian Elon Gold to record a
   video to promote peace between the U.S. and Iran. You can watch and share
   the video here:
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Thank you for all you do to help bring about a more just foreign policy,

Robert Naiman, Chelsea Mozen, Sarah Burns and Megan Iorio
Just Foreign Policy

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