Wiesenthal Center To Join L.A. Iranian Community To Protest Ahmadinejad Address At U.N. Conference

April 30, 2010

Leaders of Los Angeles’ vast Iranian community will join Wiesenthal Center officials, activists, civic and religious leaders at a Monday moning briefing that will cover reactions to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s address that morning at the United Nations Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York. Despite being a co-signer of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran has violated it in its attempt to become a nuclear state.

The briefing will convene at the Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance on Monday, May 3,2010 at 10:00am. The Museum of Tolerance is located at 9786 W. Pico Blvd (corner Pico and Roxbury) Los Angeles, 90035.

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The Simon Wiesenthal Center is one of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations with over 400,000 member families in the United States. It is an NGO at international agencies including the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, the OAS, the Council of Europe and the Latin American Parliament (Parlatino).