In Case You Missed It: "Activist Group Wants Hotel to Ban Iranian President"

   

In Case You Missed It: "Activist Group Wants Hotel to Ban Iranian President" UANI's Warwick Campaign Featured on New York's Fox 5 News   Fox 5 "News at 6"  September 4, 2012   Click here to watch the piece. GREG KELLY, FOX 5 NEWS: Here we go again. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, who happens to be an anti-Semite, is coming back to New York, for the UN General Assembly. ... A lot of folks are upset he'll be back here, and apparently he'll be staying at the same hotel he stayed in last time, the Warwick. ... A committee has formed to keep him from staying there. Ti-Hua Chang reports on this for us. ... TI-HUA CHANG, FOX 5: We're on 54th Street and Sixth Avenue Greg. In fact there will be demonstrations here when Ahmadinejad stays here at the Warwick Hotel in just under three weeks. You have to remember this is a man that hates America and hates New York City and also said there was no such thing as the Holocaust or 9/11. ... Because he's accompanied by some seventy persons from security to assistants, the Warwick Hotel stands to make six figures, at least $100,000, say sources. NATHAN CARLETON, UNITED AGAINST NUCLEAR IRAN: It's absolutely blood money. CHANG: The non-partisan group United Against a Nuclear Iran is calling for a worldwide boycott of Warwick hotels to protest Ahmadinejad's staying at the one in New York. The group says several New York hotels would not let Ahmadinejad stay with them. The group, which wants an economic blockade of Iran to stop its nuclear weapons program, plans to demonstrate against the Warwick and Ahmadinejad. CARLETON: He's the leader of a criminal regime. His country is the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism. He's deeply insulted the people of New York many times. He calls 9/11 a lie. He says he hates this country, he hates this city. And now he wants to stay in a hotel, and it's unfortunate. CHANG: A luxury hotel. CARLETON: Right, a luxury hotel. ... CHANG: Ahmadinejad could have stayed at the Iranian mission to the United Nations, on Third Avenue. It's closer and more secure, although far less luxurious.U.S. taxpayers, especially New Yorkers, will pay have to pay more for the extra Secret Service and NYPD officers needed to protect Ahmadinejad at the Warwick. Last year, Mayor Bloomberg said he didn't have a problem with Ahmadinejad staying here at the Warwick. He's not said anything this year. Now we did call the Warwick International hotel corporate headquarters in Denver to try and get a comment. They never called us back. ... Click here to read UANI's Monday New York Post Op-Ed, "Say 'no' to A'jad, NY." Click here to read UANI's August 30 letter to the Warwick. Click here to tell the Warwick New York Hotel not to host Ahmadinejad.   ###                                                                         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. 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