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Article: Simon Wiesenthal Center Urges Swiss to Cancel Multi-Billion Dollar Deal With Tehran
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- CCNMatthews Newswire
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- April 16, 2008
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TORONTO, ONTARIO and LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA--(Marketwire - April
16, 2008) - Senior officials from the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC)
in the US and the Canadian-based Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
(FSWC) are urging the Swiss government to cancel an $18 billion gas
deal with Iran.
"This ill-conceived and ill-timed deal, signed in the presence of
the Swiss Foreign Minister, bolsters the Iranian regime and weakens
the International Community's efforts to use economic sanctions to
force Iran to stop its nuclearization program," said Rabbi Abraham
Cooper, the Associate Dean of SWC and Leo Adler, Director of
National Affairs of FSWC, in a statement released following their
meeting yesterday ...