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The Most Dangers Animal in the world

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Blog EntryThe Most Dangers Animal in the world Sep 23, '10 12:38 PM
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  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 

 

Officials of a government that greets peaceful, pro-democracy demonstrators with rifle fire do not deserve even one good night's sleep on American soil

 

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in Manhattan this week to attend the United Nations General Assembly. Unfortunately, the Hilton Manhattan East hotel has agreed to host the Holocaust-denying president and his henchmen. He may want to bring some board games, because it's unlikely he will be welcome anywhere else in the city. In fact, the vast majority of New York venues have made it clear that he is not welcome

When Ahmadinejad attended the U.N.'s fall 2009 conclave, the Essex House on Central Park South and the New York Helmsley were among the hotels that shut their doors to the theocrat dictator from Tehran. Neither hotel cared to welcome a man who has called 9/11 a "big lie" and for Israel to be "wiped off the map

The Omni Berkshire Hotel also refused to turn down the sheets for Ahmadinejad and his traveling party. Officials of a government that greets peaceful, pro-democracy demonstrators with rifle fire do not deserve even one good night's sleep on American soil

Companies that have rebuffed this brutal regime go far beyond the hospitality industry and far away from New York City. Caterpillar, General Electric, Ingersoll Rand, KPMG and Toyota are just a few of the major corporations that have stopped doing business in Iran. Because the regime's cronies pervade Iran's society and economy, these businesses realize that their presence in Iran lends legitimacy to the regime. And doing business in Iran can lead, wittingly or otherwise, to material support for a government that is developing an illegal nuclear weapon in the face of international condemnation and that is a brutal violator of human rights.
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This is the same regime that stones women to death. While activists across America are promoting gay marriage, President Ahmadinejad denies that there are homosexuals in Iran and those that are discovered are hanged.

Most important, refraining from business in Iran lowers the odds that Tehran's mullahs will acquire the ultimate billy club — a nuclear weapon — that it would wield in the already volatile Middle East. The Iranian regime sponsors Hamas and Hezbollah, supplying them with rockets fired into Israel's residential neighborhoods and test-fires its own long-range ballistic missiles for potential attacks on the Jewish state. A nuclear weapon will only empower Iran to further bully other more moderate Arab states in the region and is a clear threat to U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Iraq and the rest of the Persian Gulf.

Lest Iran enjoy nukes all to itself, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and perhaps others in that troubled neighborhood would become keenly interested in acquiring their own nuclear weapons, to deter Iran.

The sanctions that Congress and President Barack Obama imposed on Iran in July are helping frustrate the mullahs' nuclear ambitions. Among other provisions, the sanctions preclude companies that conduct business in Iran from doing business with the U.S. government.

Honeywell, for instance, helps develop critical oil refineries in Iran — and has also earned some $12.9 billion in contracts from the U.S. government over the last decade. It soon must decide if it prefers to make money in Tehran or Washington, D.C.

With the growing tide of outrage against companies operating in Iran, companies like Honeywell and its highly paid CEO, David Cote, must decide if short-term profits from doing business in Iran outweigh their growing status as business pariahs who may no longer be welcome to do business in Iran. Dozens of foreign corporations will be making the same choice, including Finnish communications company Nokia, Danish shipping giant Maersk, Japanese construction conglomerate Komatsu and Russia's leading oil producer, Lukoil.

Denying the Iranian government nuclear weapons and prodding it to improve human rights will demand the dedication of American diplomats, democracy activists and intelligence officers. It also will require the moral clarity and savvy long-term business views of business men and women willing to forgo profits from everything from Iranian-government hotel guests to lucrative contracts in the Iranian petroleum industry. Now is the time for "private sanctions," where all businesses come together to stop doing business in Iran — a small price to pay to prevent Iran from getting the bomb.

Ambassador Mark D. Wallace is the president of United Against Nuclear Iran. He served as the United States ambassador to the United Nations, representative for U.N. management and reform, from 2006 to 2008

 

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