(Paris, 9 February 2010) – The European Jewish Congress is calling upon the UN Security Council to quickly put forward a new and robust resolution to stop the Iranian regime’s latest show of nuclear defiance. In light of the regime’s decision to enrich uranium despite international criticism, European Jewish Congress President Dr. Moshe Kantor responded by demanding that Western countries immediately apply crippling sanctions.
 
“We find it unacceptable that the Iranian regime can flagrantly mock the entire international community by going ahead with a nuclear enrichment process while stating that the West did not accept its supposed overtures” affirmed EJC President Dr. Moshe Kantor.
 
“Never has the Iranian regime taken such aggressive and obvious steps to obtain nuclear weapons,” Dr. Kantor said. “We must take action as soon as possible, in the form of crippling sanctions that will weaken the resolve of the Iranian leaders.”
 
The Iranian decision to enrich uranium comes in the context of the preparation of the anniversary of the Islamic revolution of 1979, an event that will in all probability intensify the long-standing confrontation between the oppressive regime and the Iranian opposition, since the contested results of the June 2009 presidential elections. Many opposition leaders and innocent bystanders and activists have been arrested, imprisoned, tortured and assassinated.
 
“If the Iranian regime believes that it will achieve glory and international respect through the flawed quest of nuclear weapons – it is fundamentally wrong,” said Dr. Kantor. “Those in power should heed the calls of freedom that come from the streets instead of pursuing the enrichment process. More needs to be done in Washington, Moscow, Berlin, Paris, London and Beijing to not only stop this mad race towards annihilation, but also to give Iran back to the Iranians.”
 
The European Jewish Congress (EJC) is the democratically elected umbrella body of Jewish communities in Europe.

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