Other News Releases in Domestic Policy
U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for Nov. 22
Congressman Fattah: Thanks to Specter, Casey for a Major Step Along History's Path
Leading Anti-Abortion Group Vows to Vigorously Fight the Senate Health Bill
Journalists and Bloggers
Visit PR Newswire for Journalists for releases, photos, ProfNet experts, and customized feeds just for Media.
View and download archived video content distributed by MultiVu on The Digital Center.
See more news releases in: Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy & International Affairs
The Formation of the Committee Against Ahmadinejad
NEW YORK, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In Iran in last 365 days,
there have been over 5000 rallies, strikes and demonstrations against the
Iranian regime. According to Amnesty International, Iran continues to have
one of the highest rates of executions in the world. The reported
executions in 2007 have already exceeded 150. Presently, political
opponents in Iran are charged with bogus criminal offenses and then
executed in public. The United Nations has at least 52 times condemned the
Iranian government.
House bills H. CON. RES. 21 & H. RES. 43 call on the United Nations
Security Council to charge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with
violating the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime
of Genocide and the United Nations Charter because of his calls for the
destruction of the State of Israel.
For nearly 30 years, Iranian government has incited and then exploited
public sentiments to spread negative propaganda against Christians, Jews,
and Bahaies. A great example of such exploitation is Ahmadinejad's call for
the destruction of Israel.
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is leading a dangerous crusade
against the Iranian people and the civilized world. Ahmadinejad's Iran's
Revolutionary Guards (IRG) organization is responsible for killing and
torture of the Iranian people as well as training and equipping terrorist
in Iraq.
Beginning in 2005, the Committee against Ahmadinejad (CAA) been led the
effort in exposing Ahmadinejad's activities as well as organizing protests
against his presence at the United Nations General Assembly. In the past 2
years, 30 members of the United States Congress, dozens of religious
leaders, and numerous human rights advocates have supported CAA.
Once again, the United Nations General Assembly meeting is scheduled to
begin in mid-September, 2007. Accordingly, CAA once more commences in order
to mobilize the broad voices of discontent against Ahmadinejad, specially
embracing the following goals:
1. Call the freedom and peace loving public citizens to voice solidarity
with the families and victims of atrocities in both Iran and Iraq, as
well as the victims of Iranian regime's terrorist acts in Buenos Aires,
Khobar Tower and Lebanon Marine Barracks,
2. Call for U.N. member states to act by referring Iran's humans rights
file to the U.N. Security Council for crime against humanity,
3. Urge the United Nations to appoint a special envoy to investigate
Iran's human rights violations.
4. Call the US government to deny Ahmadinejad's presence in US.
SOURCE Committee Against Ahmadinejad













