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  

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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.

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