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Thursday, February 27th 2014

No business with the Iranian regime!

Rally & info desk against the Iran seminar of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce (WKO)

Rally & info desk

Thursday, February 27th 2014, 08:00 AM

Wiedner Hauptstraße/corner Schönburgstraße
1040 Vienna

In their seminar "Focus on Iran", the Austrian Chamber of Commerce (WKO) wants to teach Austrian companies how to boost their business ties with the anti-Semitic Iranian dictatorship even though most of the sanctions against the regime are still in place. Already in the past the WKO was known for offering this kind of events - and was harshly criticized for it abroad. Also today, the US administration strongly warns against new business with Iran.

Economic cooperation as promoted by the WKO actually supports the most radical and brutal entities of the regime, the Revolutionary Guards (Pasdaran). They control about an estimated 80 percent of the foreign trade as well as the nuclear and ballistic missiles programs. Nothing has changed since President Rouhani took office in August 2013: The "Supreme Leader" Khamenei until today calls the Holocaust a "myth". Israel is being targeted as "cancerous tumor" just as under Ahmadinejad and threatened with annihilation. The number of executions is rising. In Syria, the regime and its ally Hezbollah are responsible for the slaughter of thousands. And in Iran, opposition members, women, homosexuals, religious and ethnic minorities are still being brutally oppressed.

Whoever promotes increased business ties with this regime, just as the Austrian Chamber of Commerce does, helps the ayatollahs and Revolutionary Guards to remain in power. The projects of the regime - be it the nuclear program or the oppression of the population - are mainly financed with the revenues from foreign trade. Companies which now engage in business with Iran clearly risk to be punished and lose their international reputation. Those Iranian citizens, who have been yearning for regime change for years, will not forget who were the biggest supporters of the brutal rulers.




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