December 14th 2011

Protest against Iranian chair at OPEC meeting

No stage for the Iranian regime!

Rally against the Iranian chairmanship at the OPEC meeting

Wednesday, December 14th 2011, 9:00 AM
Wipplingerstraße 34 (in front of Börse), 1010 Vienna

On December 14th, the Iranian Oil minister Rostam Ghasemi will hold the chairmanship at the OPEC meeting in Vienna. Ghasemi was commander of the Iranian Revolutionary guards, which is responsible for the violent crackdown of the opposition as well as the nuclear weapons program. Although he was subject to EU sanctions, he will be allowed to enter the EU and Austria. Despite pursuing a nuclear program, despite ongoing repression against the Iranian people and despite the run on the British embassy in Teheran, representatives of the Iranian regime move freely in Vienna and get the chance to initiate new business deals.

Representatives of the Iranian regime are using their appearances at international organizations to spread their murderous ideology repeatedly. The survival of the Iranian dictatorship of Ayatollahs and Revolutionary Guards is being sustained by oil and gas exports which are being discussed at the OPEC meeting.

Those doing business with the Iranian Regime support a policy ranging from the persecution of homosexuals, women and minorities, holocaust denial, annihilation threats against Israel, the nuclear and missile program, to the financing of global jihadist terror.

We demand:

- No stage for the murderers of the Iranian opposition!

- No stage for representatives of an antisemitic, holocaust-denying regime!

- Freezing all diplomatic relations!

- Crippling sanctions in the energy sector, sanctions against Iran's Central Bank and sanctions preventing exports of industrial goods to Iran!