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NYCA Will Hold Rally against September Trip of Iran’s President to N.Y.

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U.S. Newswire, NEW YORK, September 1 – Building on the unity it has generated among Iranian-Americans and other communities in the campaign against terrorism since its formation, the ‘New York Committee against Ahmadinejad (NYCA)’ will hold a peaceful rally against Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on September 14, 2005 outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York. He is scheduled to attend a UN General Assembly meeting.

 

New Yorkers and Iranian-Americans from nearly 40 states will come together in the rally at the Dag Hammarskjold UN Plaza. It will be the culmination of a three-week outreach campaign by the NYCA in light of Ahmadinejad’s past involvement in Iran’s state-sponsored terrorism, including the 1979 take-over of the US Embassy in Tehran.

 

Ahmadinejad, a former senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, was a leader of the student group which took over the Embassy and was directly involved in the 1989 assassination of an Iranian Kurdish leader in Vienna, Austria.

 

Yesterday, the ABC News revealed in an exclusive report that the United States has determined the mullahs’ new president Ahmadinejad is indeed a terrorist. The ABC News report effectively confirms the comprehensive dossier on Ahmadinejad’s direct ties to terrorism which was released by the NYCA on Tuesday.

 

Earlier this week, Congressman Ed Towns (D-NY) expressed his solidarity with the NYCA, stressing that “the people in my hometown New York are welcoming you to New York to hold your peaceful rally on September 14. I believe the victims of all terrorist acts should join together and raise their voices against the presence of Ahmadinejad at UN General Assembly in NY.”

 

“At a time, when our troops and the Iraqi people face an insurgency in Iraq, it is outrageous to witness the architect of such interference be legitimized by an international body, such as the United Nations. We, New Yorkers and America at large would never allow the terrorist regimes to advance their goals,” he added.

 

On August 30, the NYCA’s held a press briefing in which the leaders of the Iranian-American communities along with American human rights activists and religious leaders denounced Ahmadinejad’s visit.

 

Reverend Dr. Anthony Ercolano, from the Diocese of Brooklyn, said, “Jews, Baha’is and Christians who are in Iran live in constant fear of abuse and arrest…I stand in solidarity with the peaceful gathering that will take place in on September 14th.”

 

“There is simply no ground to continue the fallacy of “constructive dialogue” with the mullahs’ regime, especially with Ahmadinejad as the new president. I am one of thousands of family members of victims of terrorism in Iran. My father was assassinated by the Iranian regime,” Ali Nainee, representing the Iranian-Americans of New York, told the audience.

 

American human rights activist, Lynn Dykstra, added, “I fully support the aims of the Iranian-American communities and their just struggle for democracy and freedom in Iran. I call on every American to support the democratic aspirations of the Iranians by participating in the Sept. 14 rally against Ahmadinejad.”

 

Bahman Badiee of the Iranian Society of South Florida said, “Iranian-Americans have recognized the urgent calling of their native land and will gather in New York City to once again reject the leader of the mullahs’ tyrannical regime and its ideology of terror.” Stressing that Ahmadinejad did not represent the Iranian people, he said, “Iran’s UN seat belongs to the Iranian nation, and not to Tehran’s terrorist president and his delegation.”

 

“The Iranian-American communities around the nation are outraged by the upcoming trip of Ahmadinejad. Of course we are not alone. Since the announcement of his trip, many Americans have shared their indignation with us,” Shirin Nariman, a representative of the Iranian-American community in Virginia, said at the briefing.

 

The speakers also addressed Ahmadinejad’s role in advancing Tehran’s nuclear drive and stepping up violence in Iran and Iraq. At least 53 individuals, including seven minors and three women, have been hanged or sentenced to death since Ahmadinejad’s election.