Friday, March 18th 2016

Rouhani visit to Austria: President Fischer makes mass executions, holocaust denial, terror sponsoring and homophobia socially acceptable

STOP THE BOMB calls upon civil society to join protests #RouhaniNotWelcome

Despite the latest UN report on Iran’s highest number of executions in 20 years, state-sponsored festivals for Holocaust denial, the death penalty for homosexuality and the just recently renewed annihilation threats against Israel that were confirmed this week by an Iranian minister in Austria’s state TV ORF, Austria’s president Heinz Fischer is set to roll out the red carpet for Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani at the end of March in Vienna. The Iranian regime meanwhile continues to sponsor international terrorism and is waging a cruel war on behalf of Assad in Syria. Fischer is apparently keen on spending his last days in office with a representative of an anti-Semitic terror regime. Said Stephan Grigat, STOP THE BOMB’s Research Director: "Smiling Rouhani is not a bearer of hope but the friendly face of terror."

STOP THE BOMB is going to hold protest rallies together with civil society and antifascist groups which stand up for universal human rights and against anti-Semitism.