ADL
Calls On Ban-Ki Moon To Condemn Incendiary Anti-Semitic Remarks By
Iranian Vice President At U.N. Drug Abuse Conference
The
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) have called on U.N. Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon to immediately condemn an incendiary anti-Semitic and
conspiracy-laden speech by Iran's vice president blaming Jews for
spreading drug addiction and controlling the international illegal
drug trade.
In
his address to a U.N-sponsored conference marking International Day
against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Tehran, Iranian First
Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi bizarrely claimed that no Jews
have any addiction to drugs, declaring: “The Islamic Republic of
Iran will pay for anybody who can research and find one single
Zionist who is an addict. They do not exist. This is the proof of
their involvement in drugs trade.” Rahimi went on to blame
“Zionists and Jews” for involvement in other alleged
conspiracies, including the Russian Revolution and ordering the
killing of black babies.
Abraham
H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement:
“To
all those who thought that anti-Semitism is a thing of the past,
certainly this makes it very clear that it is alive and well again.
What makes it more sinister and dangerous is the fact that it comes
from a leader of a country that has vowed to destroy the Jewish
state, and is making efforts to obtain the means to do it;
“Before
now, good people in the world either ignored Iran's anti-Semitism or
did not take it seriously. One would hope that this resurgence of
dangerous anti-Semitic themes at a U.N. conference in Tehran would
shake up the moral, political, religious leadership to condemn it
with a strong voice. We begin by calling on Ban Ki-moon to speak out
and to make clear that these views are not only objectionable, but
repugnant to the entire international community.”
SOURCE:
{ http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASInt_13/6340_13.htm
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