On June 16th 2009 the Iranian ambassador in Germany, Ali Reza Sheik Attar, was scheduled to take part at a panel discussion with Johannes Reisner from the SWP (German Institute for International and Security Affairs) to talk about German-Iranian relations.
The STOP THE BOMB campaign, the Coalition against Antisemitism Leipzig and various other groups and individuals protested fiercely against this flattering of a representative of a terror regime who himself was involved in crimes in his times as governor of the province of Kurdistan in Iran. A protest rally had been announced.
The panel discussions organized by the Heinrich-Böll-Stifting who is associated with the Green Party in Germany and eurient e.V. has been canceled today due to the protests.
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