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December 12, 2011
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC. 20500
Re: Imposing Sanctions against Islamic Republic Central Bank and oil exports
Dear Mr. President,
We, the undersigned, are a diverse but united group of pro-democracy Americans and Iranian-Americans expressing our astonishment and anger in the strongest terms regarding your continued misguided policies toward Iran and your administration’s opposition and refusal to placing of meaningful sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
We are appalled to hear yet again your administration continues to appease the Islamic Republic, a regime designated by the United States State Department as a “state sponsor of terrorism” and has now surpassed China on the issue of human rights violations. The Iranian mullahs routinely use torture, whipping, rape, stoning, hangings and mass executions have been well documented by Amnesty International and other human rights organizations.
The recent amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act authored by Senators Robert Menendez and Mark Kirk had an unprecedented support as demonstrated by the unanimous approval (100-0) in the Senate requiring sanctions on financial institutions that do business with the Central Bank of Iran. Next to oil, that finances the IRI’s terrorist activities, the Central Bank is the financial nerve center of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the entity directly responsible for regime’s proliferation procurement efforts.
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