HOPI Anti Sanctions Campaign launched

international | anti-war / imperialism | other press Sunday March 22, 2009 19:21 by pat c

War may be politics by other means but HOPI believe that Sanctions against Iran are War by other means. Here is a report of the launch of the campaign. Full text at: http://hopidisc.blogspot.com/2009/03/hopi-campaign-laun....html

On March 16, Hands Off the People of Iran kicked off its Smash the Sanctions campaign with a press conference in the House of Commons. John McDonnell MP, Jenny Jones (Green Party member of the London assembly) and Hopi chair Yassamine Mather addressed the meeting.

Yassamine Mather started off by saying that sanctions are another form of war. The current set has just been renewed by Barack Obama. This shows that - if any proof was needed - his policies are very much a continuation of those of the Bush administration. There has also been a new round of sanctions, which includes serious restrictions on Sharif University, a leading educational institution in Iran, along with the Razi institution, a developer of immunisation medicines and a textile plant in the north of the country.

Go to link below to listen to the speeches given by Yassamine Mather (chair of Hands Off the People of Iran) John McDonnell MP and Jenny Jones (London Assembly member, Green Party)
http://www.hopoi.org/