 Um, and so next we are going to, um, have just again, if you have any, anyone who's, uh, speaking, if you're having issues and needing to go, uh, super let us know, but if not, then we are going to, and this is the international portion of our program. Um, and just so you know, it is so late, we started at one a 1pm western time because four months ago when we were starting to plan this, we thought we'd be watching Frank's movie for the last two hours, sitting chilling and all you've on the east coast would be fine. Turned out a little different, but we're delighted. So, Nuri Frank, you are going to introduce Nuri please. Okay, thanks. Thanks, Rachel. My friend Nuri Ironici was born in Iran. After the CI coup in Iran in 1953, her family, excuse me, was forced to migrate to the United States. She got her masters in economics from the University of Wisconsin. She's been a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom for 50 years. She was a member of the National Alliance, it's racist and political repression. She established the free Palestine organization in Hawaii, and was the founder of education, not incarceration and open. And she is the current co-founder of the US Department of Peace. Nuri is a fantastic woman. She's bought 1000 copies of it. She gives them away for free everybody. And she's such a wonderful woman. Nuri, are you there? Yes, thank you. Thank you for. I really wanted to save you all that time. Thank you so much, Rachel. Thank you, Frank, and for go. But there are some interesting things that I would like to mention. I was born in Iran, and when I was 10 years old or younger, Mossadik came to power. And so during Mossadik, British, of course, because of our oil, it always is because of resources that United States wants to go and rob those countries, the same as everywhere else. So British went to war against Iran and US didn't come to help Iran. So we are used to sanctions from 70 years ago when I was a child. And then CIA, then Dr. Mossadik nationalized oil, which was Iranian resource and other. So US, during Eisenhower, Eisenhower, I was 13 years old, they carried Gudetai in 1953 against Dr. Mossadik and overthrow him. While Mossadik asked Eisenhower if he could go between United States, between Iran and British and be mediator and make peace. And Eisenhower not only didn't do that, but they also sanctioned Iran, didn't help financially, and they carried Gudetai in 1953. Well, I was very young. My whole family had to migrate to United States. My brother was almost executed. He was physician, just graduating, and he was about to be killed by a friend of a safety team. Then we had to come to US. Then I, when I, and I became active in United States with American Soviet Friendship Society and other. So from childhood, I was active. Then my father died in 19, then when my father died during Shaw, who was Shaw became Shaw was put back in power by United States. And the first thing did our resources was used to attack the far, which is Western Yemen. So Yemen that we know the war is going on now, 70 years ago, or 68 years ago, Shah of Iran with Iranian resources on behalf of United States became Jandarm of the region and start killing Middle Eastern, any resistance. And so many 30,000 Tafari people were killed with Iranian money for United States benefit. And then they created Savak and Evan Savak was famous torture center in Iran, and Evan was the prison that were imprisoning all progressives. And I never forget as a child that there was a music that was created by someone that they were going to execute him. And he was asking his child, his daughter, kiss me goodbye for the last time. This became a music for Iran and for so many, many years of so many that they were executed by Shaw. And Kiss Me Goodbye was the famous song of so many that they were. So then I, we had to come to US in US when my father died in 1978. As American citizen, I had to go back. And when I went back, they arrested me and put me in solitary confinement in Evan prison. And I thought, wow, am I really that useful and that good that United States or Iranian government is afraid of me and putting me in solitary confinement. I was there for two and a half months, but then the revolution was taking place in Iran. And they had to get rid of me. I didn't worth all that. So, and I would see in prison, I would hear that they would pull the young men that they would torture them and they couldn't walk. You would hear and you could see if I had a little hole in my prison once in a while. They wouldn't drop the thing that they were in control to drop it that I couldn't, that I couldn't see outside once in a while they would forget. And I would look and I would see that they are pulling these political prisoners that they tortured already to take them to their cell after the torture. Or, you know, that kind of things that you could witness that I would witness so, so regularly when I was in solitary confinement. So then I came to U.S. and then the revolution happened. And when the revolution happened, U.S., we had so many leaders from National Front, from Dr. Masadek, during Dr. Masadek, that they were candidate by people to become new leader. But United States felt at that point that Khomeini who was enough anti-communist while the revolution was taking place. I shouldn't forget to tell you that there was a theater in Abadan that 600 young people that they went for watching movie, United States, they blocked everything and they burned the whole theater. And so many other things. And then at the time of hostage crisis, or so-called hostage crisis, I have the book I want to show, you will see that, what did I do with the book I want to show? During hostage crisis, hostage is nothing happened to them. But, and they were, but the book, six books, it was really spy center in Iran, the American Embassy. And they shredded the books. And Iranian students, they put these shredded together and it's right here. Yes. Yeah. They put the books, they shredded thing that American Embassy, top secret documents, they put it together and they created six books. This is number four that they translated to Persian. And this is, this alone is what U.S. was doing for so many years in Afghanistan. So, yeah. And then also, when I came to U.S., when hostage crisis, so-called hostage crisis happened, I was saying that send Shah back so that hostages would be released. So they came from CIA, threatened me that they will, they came to my home and said that they have orders to kill me if I continue to talk. I was medical college of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. I was studying for my medical record administration that then they had to supposedly college had to protect me. So now, now, and then, now what should we really do? I was thinking that we have been to hundreds of countries killing so many, many people. My whole family had to come to U.S. and there are millions of Iranians, not only all resources, the intelligent and education of all those countries. Seven in my family, MDs and PhDs and masters, they all live here and their children was drawn from those countries and Iran and everywhere else. So, I'm hoping that what to do would be maybe destination Nicaragua was something that Barbara Trent movie made. Americans were going to Nicaragua and let us make friendship delegations from all those countries, Soviet Union, China, Iran and bring them here and we go visit them. They would love the people to people delegations and exchanges and educate. We get our education of what are what is our government doing around the world and then nuclear disarmament that hundred twenty two countries they passed and now it is ratified. It's a world thing that we need we could focus on and really stop that danger that everybody talked. I wanted to thank you again Rachel as and Frank. It's such a beautiful thing and I'm going to use these days and weeks for many, many, many people to come and and by the way it is new year. Persian New Year is the first second day of spring yesterday was Persian New Year. So happy no rules to all of you. The first day of spring is Persian New Year and we have have seen which is seven SS symbolic of love symbolic of health symbolic of all of these. I put together that maybe I can I don't know if I can show it to you. Here we have these are these are the our seven SS symbolic of we have fish, apple, greenery and all of these things symbol of love and peace and harmony and in richness and wealth prosperity. Let us let us focus on friendship and love and getting together. Thank you so much. I talk too much. No, that that was so beautiful. Thank you so much, Nuri. As part of peace weeks in the L.A. Harbor area, Christian Guzman, part of our organizing team, we put on for every peace week we choose a country and we have a whole cultural night. And everyone comes to the zoom or comes to the live meeting when before the pandemic and we share food and we hear stories and and the first one we did was on Iran, two or three years ago. So we're doing that annually we're going to do it much more it's a beautiful beautiful way. Definitely. Yeah softens softens hearts. Eating together and enjoying. Of course. Of course that's that's what we all want. Okay. Thank you so much, Nuri. Frank, our next testimony. Okay, thank you, Nuri and Alan. Thank you so much, Nuri. I love you. She's always love it and smile and happy. Okay.