Revival

I've decided to revive this blog. It's been a year since coming to and going from Iran and it continues to become farther away for me. But I'm still in contact with some people there, I regularly hear stories from Americans who visit, and I follow the news. The organization I work with, Peace Action, has called for in-district lobby visits through next Wednesday (June 6). The purpose is for people to call, write, or visit their congress person to push for diplomatic solutions to the issues we have with Iran. Two weeks ago, congress failed to pass a resolution reasserting congressional authority to declare war (a bill aimed at preventing the President from declaring war on Iran). Here in New York, our congress people need to hear that we do not want more U.S. generated bellicosity in the Middle East or to Iran and they need to hear that people can be concerned about the security of Israel and also be against the 'tough line' against Iran.