| Dear Friend , Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is expected to address the United Nations General Assembly the week of September 13. Once again, this Holocaust denying tyrant will be welcomed as an honored leader by most of the international community. We have a different welcome in mind. We want to greet him with a petition signed by over 100,000 Americans demanding that he be tried by the International Criminal Court for the crime of incitement to genocide. Over 75,000 people have already signed this petition to date. Please click here to help us reach 100,000 by September 13, 2010. 
International law criminalizes not only the act of genocide, but also the direct and public incitement to commit genocide. This is an extremely important legal provision. The only way that the international community can stop genocide is if it prevents the acts that make it possible: namely the provocation of and preparation for such atrocities by people in positions of authority.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's repeated threats to destroy Israel present a clear case of incitement to genocide. He has made these threats explicitly, publicly, and repeatedly. His pursuit of nuclear weapons and long range missiles, as well as his ongoing support for Hezbollah and Hamas, demonstrate that these threats are by no means idle.
The next time that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears before an international tribunal, it must not be as an honored guest at the United Nations General Assembly. It must be as a defendant in the dock of the International Criminal Court. For the sake of those who died in the Holocaust he denies, and for the sake of those who would die in the Holocaust he threatens, please sign the petition today and pass it on to as many of your friends as you can. |
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