UANI Calls on Marriott Hotels to Refuse to Host the Iran Business Forum

November 22, 2010

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November 22, 2010
Contact: Kimmie Lipscomb, [email protected]
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UANI Calls on Marriott Hotels to Refuse to Host the Iran Business Forum


New York, NY -- United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) calls on Marriott Hotels to refuse to host the Iran Business Forum at the Marriott Courtyard Hamburg.  The Marriott today will host a meeting to promote German-Iranian trade.  The program is entitled "Iran Business Forum: Possibilities to invest in Iran's North-Western provinces."  The Iranian Ambassador to Germany, Ali Reza Sheikh Attar will deliver the opening address. 

UANI Coalition partner STOP THE BOMB will hold a protest rally in front of the Marriott Hotel in Hamburg on Monday, November 22.

In a letter to J.W. Marriott Jr., the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Marriott International, Inc., UANI President, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace wrote:

 

By this letter, UANI requests that the Marriot immediately clarify and reconsider its decision to host the Iran Business Forum and decline to host the Iranian Ambassador.  

 

Ambassador Attar represents a criminal regime that flouts international law in developing an illegal nuclear weapon, brutally represses its own people and is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism

 

Your decision to facilitate an event dedicated to increasing the level of economic cooperation between Germany and Iran runs directly counter to the efforts of the international community to isolate the Iranian regime. 

 

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If the Marriot continues with its plans to serve as a host to the Iran Business Forum and Ambassador Attar, UANI will take action against the Marriot hotel chain worldwide.  UANI will call on its activists to peacefully protest your properties, and will call for a general public boycott of all Marriot properties.

 

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Rest assured we do not seek to harm any business gratuitously, but understand that the danger that a nuclear-armed Iran poses to national and international security is too great to ignore.

 

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