Join CODEPINK Congress and Massachusetts Peace Action (MAPA) to challenge US policies causing mass starvation in Afghanistan and imposing brutal sanctions on Iran after the US abandoned the JCPOA (Iran nuclear deal). We will look at the Biden administration’s latest announcement that it is putting $3.5 billion of Afghanistan's Central Bank reserves into a Trust Fund in Switzerland, and we will look at the most recent setback to the US rejoining the Iran Nuclear Deal.

Is the Iran nuclear deal really dead, and if so, what are the consequences? Will Afghans ever get their money back? Stay tuned for our guests’ predictions.

Featuring

Trita Parsi is the Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and an expert on US-Iranian relations, Iranian foreign policy, and the geopolitics of the Middle East. The author of Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States, Parsi was named by the Washingtonian Magazine as one of the 25 most influential voices on foreign policy in Washington DC in both 2021 and 2022. 

Masuda Sultan is an Afghan-American women’s rights activist. In 2008 she was appointed as an advisor to the Ministry of Finance in Afghanistan, and in 2019 she co-founded All in Peace, a coalition of organizations dedicated to bringing the longest war in American history to a peaceful end. She is also a co-founder of Unfreeze Afghanistan, a women-led campaign supporting the Afghan people's wish to live in peace and prosperity. Her memoir, My War at Home, was published in early 2006.

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P.S. Our co-founder Medea Benjamin will soon be embarking on a book tour to talk about her latest release, War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict, co-authored with Nicolas Davies. If you are interested in bringing Medea to your community, in attending upcoming events in your area, or in pre-ordering the book you can click here for more info! 

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Onward toward peace and justice,
Medea, Marcy, Hanieh, Maha, and the entire CODEPINK team