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  URGENT ACTION ALERT:  STOP IRAN'S DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, BY CUTTING US RELIANCE ON FOREIGN OIL--SIGN PETITION TODAY   The Jewish Council for Public affairs (JCPA) is leading a national coalition of Jewish organizations to collect signatures to raise awareness about the connection between energy policy and the funding of Iran's illicit nuclear weapons program and the funding of terrorism. An advertisement in the New York Times explains the importance of this type of energy legislation and lists the national co-sponsors. Click here to see the advertisement. By making energy security policy and climate change national priorities, together we can stop Iran from earning up to $100 million a day every day for the next forty years - $1.8 trillion worth of oil revenues. Our addiction to foreign oil drives up prices worldwide, pouring funds into the coffers of foreign regimes that hold anti-American and anti-Israel sentiments, support terrorists, and threaten America's and Israel's national security. A comprehensive energy strategy that cuts our addiction to foreign oil, boosts clean energy technology, and moves our nation dramatically towards reduced energy dependence is absolutely vital to our national security, to Israel's safety,and to the fight against terrorism. National security, military and intelligence experts, here and in Israel, have spoken out for a comprehensive strategy that takes on the destabilizing effects of fossil fuel dependence and global climate change. Please take a few seconds to sign a petition showing your support at www.dontfundterror.org and circulate this action alert widely. This initiative is particularly timely.  Iranian President Ahmadinejad is in New York today for a UN meeting.  If you have any questions please contact Heather Paperner at the Jewish Community Relations Council at (314)442-3770 to hpaperner@jcrcstl.org Thank you.     Gerald P. Greiman, President   Batya Abramson-Goldstein, Executive Director   Brad Kafka, JCRC Iran Outreach Committee Chair   Rabbi Jeffery Stiffman, Iran Community Education Committee Chair    Jewish Community Relations Council 12 Millstone Campus Drive, St. Louis, MO 63146-5776, 314-442-3871 website:  www.jcrcstl.org Become a fan on Facebook www.facebook.com/JCRCStLouis Follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/JCRCStLouis   Inform. Collaborate. Advocate. Take Action The JCRC is a beneficiary agency of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis