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B’nai Brith Canada calls on international community to hold Iranian regime accountable for any human rights violations on anniversary of Islamic RevolutionPosted On 02/10/10
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B’nai Brith Canada calls on international community to hold Iranian regime accountable for any human rights violations on anniversary of Islamic Revolution
TORONTO, February 10, 2010 – B’nai Brith Canada has called on the international community to monitor pro-democracy rallies scheduled for the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution for any human rights violations by the Iranian regime. Given its past record of abuse, there is every reason to fear a vicious crackdown by the authorities when scores of freedom-seeking Iranians protest and rally in cities across Iran on February 11th, the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, which ended the Shah’s reign and brought the mullahs’ Islamic Regime to power.
“We call on the international community to stand with freedom-seeking Iranians tomorrow, and to hold the terrorist-sponsoring Iranian regime accountable for any infringement of the protesters’ rights,” said Frank Dimant, B’nai Brith Canada’s Executive Vice President. “The Iranian regime is the world’s top sponsor of terrorism, openly calls for Israel to be wiped off the map, denies the Holocaust, defies international law by rushing to develop nuclear weapons, and has brutally slaughtered and tortured its citizens for participating in protests in response to the sham re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.”
“The present regime in Tehran poses many dangers to the world. To avoid the prospect of the mullahs getting within a button’s click of setting the world on fire, we have to hope that the freedom-seekers in Iran are successful in finally ridding themselves, and the international community, of this world’s most dangerous and criminal regime.”
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For more information, please contact, Dan Rabkin, National Director of Communications:
416-633-6224 X 140 / cell: 416-312-9173
B’nai Brith Canada has been active in Canada since 1875 as the Jewish community’s foremost human rights agency
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