Quiz: Who Is the Real Threat? Iran or the U.S.

January: New Orleans Workers Group leads a demonstration against war with Iran.

Questions

  1. Which is the only country in history to drop the atom bomb?
    a. Iran
    b. United States
  2. Which country has a secret agency that has carried out thousands of political assassinations around the world?
    a. Iran
    b. United States
  3. Which country organized a coup to overthrow the elected government of another country?
    a. Iran
    b. United States
  4. Which country supported the brutal dictatorship of the Shah (king) for 25 years?
    a. Iran
    b. United States
  5. Which country has 6,000 atom bombs and refuses to sign a “no first strike” treaty?
    a. Iran
    b. U.S.
  6. Which country has a war industry that profits from building nuclear weapons?
    a. Iran
    b. United States
  7. Which country opened its nuclear civilian facilities to international inspection?
    a. Iran
    b. United States
  8. Which country pulled out of the “Iran nuclear deal”?
    a. Iran
    b. United States
  9. Which government threatens the security of the people of the U.S.?
    a. Iran
    b. United States

Answers

  1. The United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan after learning they were about to surrender. More than 200,000 people were killed. Thousands more were wounded and a!icted with disease for future generations.
  2. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the secret outlaw agency of the U.S. which sells drugs, corrupts, and assassinates politicians and overthrows governments.
  3. In 1954, with taxpayer money, the CIA and the British espionage agency MI6 overthrew the democratically elected Mossadegh government. His government had nationalized Iran’s oil wealth which had previously belonged to the Anglo-Iranian oil company (now known as BP).
  4. The CIA then installed the Shah (king) of Iran who ruled by torture and fascism and close ties to the U.S. government, bankers, and oil companies. In 1979 the people rose up and ousted the Shah, who was brought by Chase Manhattan bank to the U.S. His son, the Crown Prince, now lives in Northern Virginia (ten minutes away from the CIA headquarters) on the
    dime of U.S. taxpayers.
  5. The U.S. has 6,000 atom bombs. Detonated, they would be enough to make Earth uninhabitable for more than half the world’s population.
  6. The U.S. allowed war profiteering after WWII. They now loot the taxpayer’s treasury by over $1 trillion a year and get whopping profits. They then buy politicians. Both the Democratic Party and the Republican party vote to raise this budget at the expense of the people every year.
  7. Iran opened its nuclear facilities to U.N. inspections which verified Iran’s full compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an agreement reached by Iran and six countries including the United States.
  8. Only the U.S. pulled out of the nuclear treaty with Iran. All other countries stayed.
  9. The U.S. government wages endless wars to control resources and secure cheap wages around the world. This brings down workers wages here in the U.S. as they set up a competition between workers worldwide. The war budget is eating up money that should be used for healthcare, jobs, environmental protection, food and housing security, raising social security, infrastructure, and defeating COVID-19.

STOP THE ASSAULT ON IRAN! NO MORE BLOOD FOR OIL!

On November 27, a top Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed in a U.S./Israeli terrorist attack. Fakhrizadeh headed up a ministry of scientific research for national defense which produced Iran’s first COVID-19 test kit and was working on a vaccine.

Fakhrizadeh’s assassination is intended to draw Iran into a U.S. war for oil. This follows years of U.S. sanctions and assassinations. Only weeks ago Trump ordered his generals to look into bombing one of Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities.

A war with Iran would bring misery and death to millions around the world, including here where workers will be denied healthcare, food, and housing in order to feed the Pentagon war machine.

No more endless wars for profit!

No more blood for oil!

U.S. out of the Middle East!

Feed the people, not the Pentagon!