JCPA Spotlight on Iran
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About JCPA's Iran Initiative
The threat of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons is a matter of the gravest concern and utmost urgency to the world. In the last two years, the Iranian regime, under the leadership of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has manifested increasingly threatening behavior and rhetoric toward the United States, other Western powers, Israel and the Jewish people. President Ahmadinejad repeatedly has called for Israel to be wiped off the map and, on December 2006, the Iranian government convened a Holocaust denial conference in Teheran. Iran also continues to support Hezbollah and Hamas, two groups classified by the State Department as “Foreign Terrorist Organizations.”

A number of Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan, have warned that Iran’s development of nuclear weapons poses a threat to Middle East stability and could provoke nuclear arms proliferation throughout the region. A nuclear-armed Iran will destabilize world oil markets, have a deleterious effect on the global economy, and will make it increasingly difficult to achieve progress toward peace between Israel and her Arab neighbors.

The Jewish community relations field is uniquely positioned to educate and engage a broad array of organizations and community leaders – religious, ethnic and civic – in calling for diplomatic, political and economic measures to halt Iran’s progress on nuclear weapons development. Momentum is building in the United Nations and governments around the world to find a way to alter Iran’s course. But it is not enough. The American government must keep the pressure on the United Nations, and the American people must keep the pressure on our government.
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