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http://www.eurojewcong.org/ejc/news.php?id_article=5257 Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to make trip to New York for UN nuclear conference   Thursday, April 29, 2010

Click here to read the original article in The New-York Daily News The New-York Daily News By Richard Sisk Iran’s Holocaust-denying, America-hating President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is planning to come to New York for a nuclear conference at the UN that starts Monday. Iran has not said when Ahmadinejad would arrive, trailing gridlock and noisy protests through Manhattan in his wake. But Iran applied at the U.S. Embassy in Switzerland for a visa for its delegation. The visit will coincide with stepped-up U.S. efforts to win a new round of UN sanctions against Iran’s nuclear programs. Ahmadinejad has been in New York several times, most recently for the UN General Assembly meeting last fall. The UN meeting on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, held every five years, will last through May 28. ................................................ News / Iranian Threat Quietly, Austria is becoming Iran’s biggest partner   Thursday, April 29, 2010 Haaretz By Yossi Melman Very quietly, without arousing too much attention, Austria is turning into one of Iran’s most important partners in the European Union. Germany, which is Iran’s largest EU trade partner, has until now been the main target of criticism by the Israeli government and international organizations seeking to convince the world to stiffen sanctions on Iran. And this criticism is working : Several German companies, such as the giant Siemens corporation, have said they will reduce their trade with Iran. But while most EU countries reduced their commercial ties with the ayatollahs’ regime in Iran over the past year, Austria expanded them. Click here to read the rest of the article in Haaretz