Statement of Pro-Diplomacy Groups Regarding US Policy Toward Iran

Pro-diplomacy groups representing millions of American voters urge lawmakers to publicly articulate and support the following principles with respect to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that verifiably blocks each of Iran’s pathways to a nuclear weapon and created a much-needed diplomatic relationship between Iran, the United States, and U.S. allies:

• Support for the JCPOA and returning the United States to
  
  compliance with the agreement;




• Opposition to sanctions that:
  
  
  
  
  • disrupt any party’s implementation of the JCPOA;

  
  

  • prevent the United States from coming back into compliance
    
    with the JCPOA in the future;

  
  

  • disproportionately impact Iranian civilians rather than regime
    
    officials engaged in illicit or destabilizing activities;

  
  

  • block necessary humanitarian and medical supplies from
    
    reaching the country;

  
  

  
  




• Support for good faith diplomacy toward additional agreements as
  
  the preferred basis for addressing further concerns about Iranian
  
  activity; and




• Opposition to starting a war of choice with Iran.

About Face: Veterans Against the War

American Family Voices

Americans for Peace Now

Arms Control Association

Atlantic Council

Beyond the Bomb

Brave New Films

Center for International Policy

Common Defense

Council for a Livable World

CREDO Action

Daily Kos

Demand Progress

Federation of American Scientists

Foreign Policy for America

Friends Committee on National Legislation

Global Zero

Indivisible

J Street

Jewish Voice for Peace

Just Foreign Policy

MoveOn

National Iranian American Council

Open Society Policy Center

Pax Christi International

Peace Action

Peace Corps Iran Association

Physicians for Social Responsibility

Ploughshares Fund

RootsAction.org

Sojourners

T’ruah

Truman National Security Project

U.S. Labor Against the War

Union of Concerned Scientists

Veterans For Peace

VoteVets

Win Without War

Women's Action for New Directions

World BEYOND War