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Iranian pedalers planned a cycling tour around Europe and North America. Their mission as described in their manifest, is to convey Iranian people’s message of peace, friendship and solidarity to other nations around the world.
The pedaling started in 12th of May 2007 from Fiumicino (35 Km from Rome), towards Rome. During this journey, Iranian cyclists will travel city by city across 4 European countries (Italy, France, Germany, and U.K) and the United States to communicate the pacifist message of Iranian people to the rest of the world.
The cyclists will also offer a hand-made emblem of “Miles for Peace”, as a symbol of friendship on behalf Iranian people, to the mayors of the host cities as elected representatives of European and American people.
Miles for Peace campaign is being funded by independent individuals and ordinary people, and their manifest of the campaign outlined from their site www.milesforpeace.org as follows:
We Iranians are peace-loving people; we aspire for a genuine and sustainable peace, for our own nation as well as all other members of the great family of humankind. We view such peace as the divine essence of humanity. We Iranians wish to be a constructive member of the international community. We believe that:
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The world is home to all humans
No man and no nation are needless of other men and other nations
No nation is superior or inferior to any other nation.
We Iranians desire to contribute to the enrichment of culture and science and to the sustainability of peace for our nation as well as all others. We believe that every success in every field by any individual in any part of the world belongs to the human community as a whole. In the same way, we believe that any form of aggression and moral transgression anywhere in the world, brings shame and disgrace to all humans and has a devastating impact on the entire body of human society. That is why each one of us has to take responsibility vis-à-vis all world events.
Reporters, journalists and bloggers, can also visit their site: www.milesforpeace.org to receive content, photos and possibly video clips, about them.
We hope that governments across the world respect and uphold this universal longing of man for peace.
We expect the Iranian peace peddlers to get exposure in the international media; we will also try to post them as soon as we hear about them.
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