UANI Calls on Marriott Hotels to Refuse to Host the Iran Business Forum

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 22, 2010 Contact: Kimmie Lipscomb, press@uani.com Phone: (212) 554-3296 UANI Calls on Marriott Hotels to Refuse to Host the Iran Business Forum New York, NY -- United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) calls on Marriott Hotels to refuse to host the Iran Business Forum at the Marriott Courtyard Hamburg. The Marriott today will host a meeting to promote German-Iranian trade. The program is entitled "Iran Business Forum: Possibilities to invest in Iran's North-Western provinces." The Iranian Ambassador to Germany, Ali Reza Sheikh Attar will deliver the opening address. UANI Coalition partner STOP THE BOMB will hold a protest rally in front of the Marriott Hotel in Hamburg on Monday, November 22. In a letter to J.W. Marriott Jr., the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer Marriott International, Inc., UANI President, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace wrote: By this letter, UANI requests that the Marriot immediately clarify and reconsider its decision to host the Iran Business Forum and decline to host the Iranian Ambassador. Ambassador Attar represents a criminal regime that flouts international law in developing an illegal nuclear weapon, brutally represses its own people and is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism Your decision to facilitate an event dedicated to increasing the level of economic cooperation between Germany and Iran runs directly counter to the efforts of the international community to isolate the Iranian regime. **** If the Marriot continues with its plans to serve as a host to the Iran Business Forum and Ambassador Attar, UANI will take action against the Marriot hotel chain worldwide. UANI will call on its activists to peacefully protest your properties, and will call for a general public boycott of all Marriot properties. **** Rest assured we do not seek to harm any business gratuitously, but understand that the danger that a nuclear-armed Iran poses to national and international security is too great to ignore. # # # United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is a program of the American Coalition Against Nuclear Iran, Inc., a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran should concern every American and be unacceptable to the community of nations. Since 1979 the Iranian regime, most recently under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's leadership, has demonstrated increasingly threatening behavior and rhetoric toward the US and the West. Iran continues to defy the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations in their attempts to monitor its nuclear activities. A number of Arab states have warned that Iran's development of nuclear weapons poses a threat to Middle East stability and could provoke a regional nuclear arms race. In short, the prospect of a nuclear armed Iran is a danger to world peace. United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is a non-partisan, broad-based coalition that is united in a commitment to prevent Iran from fulfilling its ambition to become a regional super-power possessing nuclear weapons. UANI is an issue-based coalition in which each coalition member will have its own interests as well as the collective goal of advancing an Iran free of nuclear weapons. The Objectives of United Against a Nuclear Iran Inform the public about the nature of the Iranian regime, including its desire and intent to possess nuclear weapons, as well as Iran's role as a state sponsor of global terrorism, and a major violator of human rights at home and abroad; Heighten awareness nationally and internationally about the danger that a nuclear armed Iran poses to the region and the world; Mobilize public support, utilize media outreach, and persuade our elected leaders to voice a robust and united American opposition to a nuclear Iran; Lay the groundwork for effective US policies in coordination with European and other allies; Persuade the regime in Tehran to desist from its quest for nuclear weapons, while striving not to punish the Iranian people, and; Promote efforts that focus on vigorous national and international, social, economic, political and diplomatic measures. UANI is led by an advisory board of outstanding national figures representing all sectors of our country.

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