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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 21, 2012
Phone: (212) 554-3296
UANI Responds to Ahmadinejad's Remarks at Rio+20 Summit
Once again, President Ahmadinejad has misused a multilateral conference, in this case an environmental summit, as a platform to spread the Iranian regime's offensive rhetoric. Iran continues to show no interest in being a responsible world actor, and no member of the international community should treat it as one.
Ahmadinejad's behavior today confirms why hotels and other private businesses should stop accommodating him and his delegation, and enabling him to hijack the goals and agendas of important international events. We call on all New York City hotels and businesses to deny accommodation to Ahmadinejad and his delegation this September, during the UN General Assembly opening session.
This week, UANI called on Brazil's Royal Tulip Hotel, of France-based Golden Tulip Hospitality Group, to reverse its decision to host Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his delegation during this week's meeting of the Rio+20. UANI also called on the Novotel Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont hotel of the Accor Hotels Group and the Hotel Praia Ipanema to reverse their decision to host Iran's delegation.
Click here to read UANI's full letter to the Golden Tulip Hospitality Group and Royal Tulip Rio de Janeiro.
Click here to read UANI's letter to Accor Hotels and Novotel Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont.
Click here to read UANI's letter to the Hotel Praia Ipanema.
Click here to send a message to the hotels.
Click here to visit UANI's Hotels Campaigns page.
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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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