SWC Urges All German Party Officials: "Boycott Iran Sanctions-Busting Fair in Berlin"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESWC Urges All German Party Officials: "Boycott Iran Sanctions-Busting Fair in Berlin"Paris--Next Tuesday, an "Iranian Business Women" congress will be held at theBerlin Campus Hotel, to garner German-Iran transactions.The gathering is organized byEIEVENT (European-Iranian Ventures), together with the German FederalAssocation of Mid-Tier Businesses (BVMW), whose Board membersincludes politicians from the governing coalition FDP and the opposition SPD and Greens."For Iranian business women to be honoured in Germany - while theirsisters in Iran are humiliated, silenced, repressed and stoned - is aslap at human rights", exclaimed Dr.Shimon Samuels, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Director for International Relations.He continued, "now Iranian women are to be used as a pretext even onGerman soil"."Any German political representative attending this Fair, will beviolating the sanctions regimes against Iran established by Germany, theEuropean Union, the United States and the United Nations", added Samuels.The Centre urged "both governing and opposition parties to call on theirofficials to condemn and boycott this travesty"For further information contact Dr. Shimon Samuels on 0033(0)609770158