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Update: How The U.S. Could Stop Worrying And Love Iran


4:09 PM March 21st, 2007 by Hank Stern
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The Portland City Council marked today’s Iranian New Year today by unanimously passing a resolution urging the US government (i.e., the Bush Administration) to change course before starting a war in Iran.

Council members, never averse to weighing in on foreign affairs (see its earlier anti-war resolutions on the current war in Iraq) was in no mood to believe protestations from the White House that war with Iran isn’t imminent. Commissioner Randy Leonard, who along with Commissioner Erik Sten wrote the resolution, told a chamber packed with Iranian-Americans that it’s “embarassing” how low America’s international standing has become

The vote to pass the resolution was 4-0, with Commissioner Sam Adams absent. (He’s doing his own part for international relations, attending a conference in Montreal.)

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