UANI Commends Jumeirah Essex House for Refusing to Host Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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September 7, 2011
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UANI
Commends Jumeirah Essex House for Refusing to Host Iranian President
Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad
New York, NY - On Wednesday, United Against Nuclear
Iran (UANI) commended the
Jumeirah Essex House
for agreeing not to house
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during the U.N. General Assembly
this
month in New York City.
The Essex House recently informed UANI that it would not provide
accommodations
to Ahmadinejad, or his delegation.
Said UANI President, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace:
UANI commends Essex House
for deciding not to host
Ahmadinejad and his delegation this month. No Manhattan hotel should be
providing accommodation to the leader of a murderous regime in pursuit
of an
illegal nuclear weapons program and in alliance with al-Qaeda.
If Ahmadinejad insists on
coming to New York to
spout his hateful rhetoric and conspiracy theories, he can stay in
diplomatic
accommodations at Iran's mission to the United Nations, not a luxurious
hotel.
UANI calls on all Manhattan hotels to follow the Essex House's
responsible
decision, including the Hilton Manhattan East, Grand Hyatt New York,
InterContinental The Barclay, Millennium UN Plaza, and Warwick New York.
On August 16, The Daily Beast published an Op-Ed by UANI
President,
Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, entitled "Hotels Should Ban
Ahmadinejad." Given
Ahmadinejad's statements denying 9/11 and the Iranian regime's covert alliance with Al
Qaeda, Ambassador Wallace
asked whether any Manhattan hotels could "honestly think it appropriate
to
provide accommodations to the leader of such a detestable government,
specifically in the very city where the worst of 9/11 occurred?"
On July 21, UANI first called on New York
City's hotels to deny
accommodation to Ahmadinejad.
This is the third consecutive year that UANI is leading its Hotels Campaign.
In previous years, UANI and its
supporters have pressured multiple hotels to deny accommodations to
Ahmadinejad
and his delegation.
On September 23, 2009 the Essex House cancelled a scheduled
dinner for Ahmadinejad
following pressure from UANI.
Click here to learn
more about UANI's Hotels Campaign.
Click here to read
the UANI Hotels Op-Ed on The Daily
Beast website.
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