NCRI – The Associated Press reported the rally by supporters of the Iranian Resistance outside the United Nations in New York on Tuesday "in opposition to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was to speak there."
Covering President Bush’s remarks on Iran at the UN General Assembly, the AP quoted him saying that Iran "must abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions."
Protesters against Ahmadinejad included Alireza Jafarzadeh, who heads the Washington-based Strategic Policy Consulting think tank and is credited with having aired Iranian military secrets in the past, said the AP.
"This is going to remain as a shame on the United Nations for providing a red carpet welcome to Ahmadinejad," Jafarzadeh said in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza near the U.N., the AP report added.
Protesters chanted, "Ahmadinejad is a terrorist," and some wore skeleton costumes and wielded skulls on sticks to symbolize what they said were the deaths of 120,000 political prisoners in Iran since 1979.
Gabriel Buoc, a former judge from Sudan now living in Canada, hoisted a sign that said, "Stop Mullahs’ nukes. U.N. Sanctions Now." Buoc told AP that he flew to New York to join the protest because Iran and Sudan are allies.
"Iran has a totalitarian regime," he said. "And the regime at home is an ally of Iran. … Both the United Nation and the United States should work for a regime change in Iran."
