Iranian activists in Canada have warned the West against waging a war on Iran saying the aftermath of such a war would be similar to that of Iraq.

The Mobilization against War and Occupation (MAWO) and the Iranian Community against War (ICAW) as two major anti-war coalitions in British Colombia, Canada hold their public forum on Thursday in Surrey urging the Western countries to 'keep their hand off Iran'.

Arash Sharifi, one of the ICAW presenters, who still has his family in Iran said that he didn't want his country to have the same fate as Iraq.

“And what do we see in Iraq right now, what is happening in Iraq with people, water condition, drinking water, electricity, the devastation that that country is going through, it is scary to feel that my country, my family is gonna to go through the same or a lot worse,” Sharifi said, Press TV's Zara Jamal reported.

Another ICAW activist, Payvand Pejvack, drew a parallel between Iraq and Iran saying that Washing has always had a similar stance towards both countries.

"I think you can see the links quite clearly between Iraq and Iran before there was an attack on Iraq. There were sanctions for years and years and years against the country, comments and threats against it," he said.

"There was the media as well saying that Iraq was developing nuclear energy, nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and use that to actually invade and attack the country and they are doing the same with Iran now," Pjvack said.

ICAW and MAWO have planned to continue their campaign in other areas in Vancouver over the next few months.

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