I urge all of this newspaper’s readers who care about our security in New York to come to an important “Stop Iran Rally” this coming Tuesday evening Sept. 1, 2015, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., at 780 Third Avenue, Manhattan (at 49th Street).
This location is in front of the offices of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (whom we will urge to oppose the catastrophic “Iran deal”), and Sen. Chuck Schumer (whom we will praise for his thoughtful, non-partisan opposition to the dangerous Iran deal).
The organizers of this rally include many individuals from Great Neck and other parts Long Island, and 100 organizations who are part of the StopIranRally Coalition.
The “Iran deal” endangers New York.
The deal provides Iran with $150 billion in sanctions relief — plus hundreds of billions more ($700 billion combined, according to left-of-center former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren) — which Iran will use to continue developing intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) to carry nuclear warheads to the United States, and to finance Islamic terrorism around the world.
Iran and its proxies are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of U.S. marines in Lebanon; U.S. soldiers at Khobar Towers, Saudi Arabia; approximately one-third of the thousands of U.S. casualties in Iraq (Iran supplied the training and the improvised explosive devices — IEDs — that killed one-third of our soldiers in Iraq); and for attempted terrorist attacks on U.S. soil on the Saudi and Israeli embassies and on the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. while present in a restaurant in Georgetown, in Washington, D.C., which would have resulted in the deaths of dozens of innocent American restaurant patrons.
With the approach of the anniversary of 9/11, we should also bear in mind that Iran played a key role in the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, DC., which killed thousands of Americans.
In the Havlish v. Bin Laden, et al case (2011), a U.S. district court in Manhattan ruled that the Islamic Republic of Iran, its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khameni, Iranian agencies including its Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security, and Iran’s proxy Hezbollah materially and directly supported al Qaeda in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
The court held that these Iranian entities and proxies are legally responsible for damages to hundreds of family members of 9/11 victims. Evidence in the case obtained during a seven-year investigation, including from the 9/11 Commission recommendation and staff and other experts and informants, demonstrated, among other things, that:
* Iran, al Quaeda and Hezbollah formed a terror alliance in the early 1990s;
* Iran aided the 9/11 hijackers by concealing their travel through Iran to training camps;
* Iran used front companies to obtain Boeing 757-767-777 flight simulators to train the 9/11 terrorists;
* An Iran Revolutionary Guard – MOIS task force called Shaitan dar Atash (Satan in Flames) designed various plans for “unconventional” warfare against the U.S., including plans to crash passenger airlines into the World Trade Center;
* An Internal Iranian memorandum revealed that Iran’s Supreme Leader was aware of the World Trade Center planned attacks and gave instructions to intelligence operatives regarding restricting communications;
* Senior Hezbollah operative Imad Mugniyah coordinated activities for the 9/11 attacks in Saudi Arabia, and Mugniyah or his associates were present on flights the hijackers took to Beirut and Iran; and
* Iran facilitated the escape of al Quaeda leaders from Afghanistan.
The funds that Iran will receive from “Iran deal” sanctions relief can finance 300,000 9/11 attacks!
Our junior senator needs to stop supporting a deal that endangers all of us in New York.
Please join us at the rally on Sept. 1st – to demand that Sen. Gillibrand must change her announced intention to vote for the catastrophic Iran deal.
Elizabeth (Liz) Berney, Esq. is the Director of Special Projects and Long Island-Queens Executive Director for the Zionist Organization of America.
Great Neck
