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| Iran just took a hit from the blogosphere. |
| 2005-02-06 |
| The Marriott corporation has just announce that it had canceled an event to celebrate the "Islamic victory against America." The event, billing itself as: "Twenty Sixth Anniversary of the glorious victory of the Islamic Revolution and Death to America Day", was scheduled for tomorrow. I reported last Tuesday, the Iranian government had booked the use of the Bethesda Marritott. The opposition to the event was lead by Dr. Iman Foroutan, executive director of SOSiran.com and ActivistChat.com. Our combined efforts apparently generated a firestorm of letters, phone calls and faxes to the Marriott corporate office. As a result, the Washington Post is now reporting that the Marriott canceled the event saying: John Wolf, a Marriott spokesman, said yesterday that the hotel canceled the event after realizing it is illegal to do business with Iran. He said Marriott officials will "be taking steps" to prevent similar bookings in the future. Announcement of the event raised an outcry from Iranian opponents of the country’s regime who live in the United States. They organized a campaign calling on Marriott to cancel. "For them to come celebrate the anniversary of their glorious revolution in the United States is just wrong," said Iman Foroutan, director of the Iran of Tomorrow Movement, an American-based organization working to oust Iran’s fundamentalist regime. "If they allowed this, I would not be surprised if al Qaeda celebrated their next anniversary in the heart of New York." In a letter sent this week to Marriott officials and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, Foroutan cited an order from then-President Bill Clinton designating Iran as "an extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy and economy" of the United States. The letter went on to say that it is illegal for Iran to do business within the borders of the United States. Thank you to everyone that took the time to contact the Marriott! Together we can make a difference. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #5 I hope that the ass hats and the Euro-dhimmis are extremely annoyed. |
| Posted by: SR71 2005-02-06 10:33:17 PM |
| #4 Darn. I wonder who would have shown up. Me and a bunch of other people wonder. Government people. I'm sure they had the list of attendees. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-02-06 9:17:25 PM |
| #3 I am extremely disappointed that Marriott even took the booking in the first place. They are a major US corporation and the founder happens to be a member of my church . . . I don't know if he is still involved in running the place though . . . maybe we will see a 'regime change' within the structure of Marriott if it took public outrage to cancel this event . . . |
| Posted by: Jame Retief 2005-02-06 9:09:03 PM |
| #2 Darn. I wonder who would have shown up. Me and a bunch of other people wonder. Government people. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-02-06 9:04:27 PM |
| #1 Very cool. I hope a whole lotta people will be extremely inconvenienced. |
| Posted by: Mark Z. 2005-02-06 8:42:21 PM |