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Welsh peace group takes issue with US threats against Iran London, March 4, IRNA - The Neath branch of Stop the War Coalition (STWC) in Wales is holding a meeting next Tuesday to add its local voice to the international opposition to US-led military threats against Iran.

"The US administration has piled the pressure on both Iran and Syria while Israel, already a nuclear weapons power, has threatened Iran," said Alan Thompson of Neath STWC.

In a letter to the local Evening Post in south Wales, he also warned that former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter has already claimed US President George W Bush had "signed off" plans to bomb Iran in June.

"All this makes the March 19 global day of protest against the occupation of Iraq all the more crucial," Thompson said in reference to the mass peace rallies being held around the world to mark the second anniversary of the joint US-UK invasion.

STWC, which organized the biggest-ever anti-war demonstration in London two years ago, is calling for the US to be stopped in its relentless war drive as well as for the US and UK to withdraw their troops from Iraq.

"The US war drive goes on regardless.

In Iraq US troops have surrounded the city of Ramadi pending a full-scale assault," Thompson further warned.

STC is calling on supporter in the network of peace groups to make the demonstration in the British capital as big as possible later this month.

"With rumours of an attack on Iran in June and the demonstration being a matter of weeks before the general election it would be fantastic to have many hundreds of thousands of people expressing their anti-war sentiment," it says on its webpage.