ATHENS: Radical speakers addressing the Fourth European Social Forum, which opened outside Athens on Thursday, said they were ready to wage a “war for peace” to stop an attack against Iran. “The day we get the news about [an attack on] Iran, we will be out onto the streets,” British writer Tariq Ali told a news conference.

“We have to be prepared for this, and when [U.S. President George] Bush makes [threatening] noises, to say that we will make war for peace,” he added.

According to American anti-war activist Ashley Smith, a writer for the International Socialist Review, “just this last weekend in New York City, 300,000 people marched to demand an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, and to oppose a war on Iran.”

Citing sources inside Iran, Ali observed that a strike against Tehran would be folly, given the extent to which Washington depends on Iranian support to maintain forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“The support given by the Iranian government to the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq is very important to the United States,” he argued.

“An actual war against Iran would be one of the craziest things the United States has done. If they bomb Iran, let alone [conduct] a land invasion, you will have a big collapse in the occupation in Iraq and probably in Afghanistan within two weeks … you would have a new front of war from the Tigris to the Oxus Rivers,” Ali said.
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