Talk:Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran/Action Iran

Action Iran was a London-based anti-war group campaigning against military intervention in Iran, created early in 2005, which merged into Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) in November 2006. One of its founding members was Roudabeh Shafie. . The group described its primary aims as raising "public consciousness of the detrimental effect of rhetoric and policies of military intervention on political, social and economic democratization in Iran", highlighting what it called the "illegitimacy of any attacks on Iran", campaigning for what it described as "a legitimate international course of action with regards to Iran’s nuclear energy programme", and working "in partnership with other anti-war and peace movements to campaign against military intervention in the region and against nuclear proliferation in the Middle East and beyond."

Alex Callinicos described the group as not only having the single aim of opposing a would-be attack on Iran, but also "stressing the importance of the social, democratic and national movements with Iran".

Actions
On February 6, 2006, Roudabeh Shafie representing Action Iran participated in a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament demonstration outside of the headquarters of the BBC, claiming that the BBC presented biased reporting regarding Iran by not reporting alleged violations by nuclear weapons states of Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

On March 18, 2006, Action Iran members participated in a major anti-war demonstration in London.

On June 10, 2006, Elaheh Rostami Povey represented Action Iran at the Stop the War Coalition's "Fifth Annual Stop The War Conference".

On September 6, 2006, an Action Iran spokesperson took party in a rally in Manchester promoting a later rally called "Time To Go" advocating the resignation of British prime minister Tony Blair and later in the month, Action Iran together with CASMII organised a public rally with Hans von Sponeck, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq after Denis Halliday resigned from that post,

Merger with CASMII
On November 6, 2006, Action Iran merged together with the United Kingdom (UK) branch of Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) and another UK organisation opposed to an attack on Iran, Iran Solidarity, forming a new organisation in the UK called Campaign Iran, which remains part of CASMII international.