UANI Calls on The InterContinental The Barclay New York to Refuse to Host President Ahmadinejad
Sep 8th, 2009
| New York, NY – United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) today called on the InterContinental to refuse to host President Ahmadinejad and offered the InterContinental an opportunity to clarify its role as the official host hotel to President Ahmadinejad during his stay in New York for the UNGA. In a letter to Mr. Leland Lewis, General Manager of the InterContinental Hotel UANI President, Ambassador Mark Wallace wrote “UANI seeks to clarify your role as host to President Ahmadinejad. As we expressed to you in July, UANI denounces any decision by a hotel to host President Ahmadinejad in New York and calls upon all New York area hotels to join the international community in isolating Iran and condemning its illicit nuclear program.”
UANI also calls on New York elected officials to urge the InterContinental to decline to host President Ahmadinejad and the Iranian delegation.
Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, President of UANI, said of the InterContinental’s decision to host President Ahmadinejad “The InterContinental has a choice between empowering the Iranian regime and its nuclear weapons program and standing with the international community to isolate Iran. UANI is disappointed to learn that the InterContinental places its own short-term economic gain ahead of the security of the Iranian people and the stability of the Middle East.”
The InterContinental Hotel conducts business with Iran, and is listed on UANI’s Iran Business Registry.
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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.
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UANI just smells too corporate to me. My favorite is the “GE signed certification” classifying medical business in Iran (MRIs, CatScans etc.) and media content (NBC) as “humanitarian goods”. Come on …