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Six months after the U.S. and Israel started their war on Iran, most Americans' knowledge of the war is confined to gas prices, inflation, and maps of the Strait of Hormuz. The injuries, death and destruction endured by the people of Iran, and their determination to resist the United States regardless of their views of their own government, if mentioned at all, are disregarded.

Iranian culture and history is several millennia older than that of the United States. Yet for the last century, western powers have treated the country and its people as pawns in their drive to control the world's most valuable commodity: oil. Following World War II, Iran was the country where the U.S. first unveiled its worst Cold War dirty tricks: launching a CIA-military coup against a democratically elected government, and supporting the bloody dictator who ruled for decades after that.

Thus the current U.S.-Israeli war has predictably produced a determination by the Iranian people to endure long past Trump's attention span.

As the U.S. hurls bombs on their country, come see the war through the eyes of Iranian photographers. On the six month anniversary of the U.S. war on Iran, you are encouraged to visit a new exhibit, "Through Iranian Eyes: The U.S. War on Their Country," 6 pm to 9 pm, Thursday, August 27 at 1714 S. Ashland Avenue, Chicago.

Earlier that day, at 10 am at the same location, please join us for a press conference announcing the exhibit. Speakers will include:

* Teerdad Amir Normandi, an Iranian American human rights activist, founder and coordinator of the Chicago Nowruz Parade (a celebration of the Persian New Year), and host of the exhibit;

* Azar Khonani, an Iranian American who is principal and founder of Kids Academy Montessori School;

* Saman Sepehri, a socialist and an activist of Iranian descent, who has been a decades-long participant of both the anti-war movements in the US and the pro-democracy movements in Iran.

* Byron Sigcho-Lopez, 25th Ward Alderman, Illinois 4th Congressional District candidate suing to be on the November ballot, and long-time human rights and anti-war activist.

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