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OPEN LETTER:
NO TO THE SUPPORT OF THE IRANIAN REGIME BY THE AUSTRIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE!

We sharply protest against the Iran seminar scheduled for the 23 and 24 June in Vienna whose purpose is to deepen economic ties with the Iranian regime. The Chamber sets again a wrong example as it already did earlier with its „exploration trip“ to Iran at the end of April.

There must not be any „business as usual“ with a regime that has suppressed its own population for 30 years, has killed ten thousands of its opponents and driven millions into exile, has murdered homosexuals and terrorized women, has repeatedly threatened Israel with annihilation and hosted conferences on holocaust denial. It is politically and economically short-sighted to believe in a normal relationship with a country that devotes the revenues from foreign trade for the funding of international terrorism and nuclear armament, both of them posing a threat for the whole Western world. Therefore, the Austrian economy and state should embrace their responsibility to set limits to the inhuman Iranian regime by imposing more consistent sanctions and refrain from doing further business even apart from already existing restrictions.

We call upon the Austrian Chamber of Commerce to cancel the Iran seminar and refrain from any further action that may undermine the efforts to put the regime in Tehran under pressure. We demand from those active in Austrian politics to get involved in the international efforts for tighter sanctions against the Iranian regime.

First signees:

Adrian Hofmann, Alexander Stoff, Angelika Matzka (Perchtoldsdorf), Angelika Schlackl (St. Marien, O.Ö.), Barbara Fritz (Stuttgart), Christine Grün, Dino Lehmann, Dr. Clemens Heni (Post-Doctoral Researcher, Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), USA), Dr. Hava Bugajer, Dr. Stephan Grigat (Wien), Dr. Tilman Tarach, Dr.Klaus Thörner (Publizist und Pädagoge, Oldenburg), Eldrid Kiener, Erich Ehlers GesmbH (Wien), Erwin Javor, Eva Rottensteiner, Fa. DALENO GmbH (Wien), Fa. Werner Gröger GesmbH (Wien), Fa. ZALCOTEX (Wien), Georg Yacov Stiassny, Gerald Lesel, Graf Hubertus v. Hardenberg (Motorflug GmbH, Wien), Hannah Kneucker (Wien), Heinz Löffler (Wien), Hengameh H., Ingo Lauggas, Ivan Roth (Juwelier, Wien), Jakob Saternus, Jonathan Weckerle (MFFB), Kristijan Kristic (Jupiter GmbH & Co. KG), Mag. Florian Ruttner, Mag. Silvana Origlia (Kulturjournalistin, Wien), Mag. Traude Litzka (Perchtoldsdorf), Mag.Daniela Ebner (Dissertantin und Sozialarbeiterin in Wien), Michel Wagner (Friederike Rest GmbH & TM WARENHANDELS-GESELLSCHAFT m.b.H. & A. FILAPEK & Co KG, Wien), Natalie Neuberger-Schlögl, Nicholas Driscoll, Philippe Witzmann (Berlin), Professor  R. Daniel M. Zucker (Chairman, Americans for Democracy in the Middle-East), Rita Dauber, Robert Medlitsch (corem SERVICE, Wien), Saskia Kaufmann, Simon Deutsch, Simone Dinah Hartmann (Wien), Tom Kalkus (selbstständig, Wien), Victor Wagner (VICTOR WAGNER & GLASS GMBH, Wien), Viviane Koth (Wien)