[Conference of Presidents] Malcolm Hoenlein - Iran today is the largest executioner of children in the world. Hundreds of people are killed annually for no crime, just for political reasons. According to most experts, 85% of Iranians reject Ahmadinejad's policies. When he hosted the Holocaust cartoon contest in Teheran, a city of 13 million people, less than 50 people a day went to see it. When Yad Vashem started a Persian language website, it got many e-mails from Muslim Iranians who rejected Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial. Iran's nuclear program is not just Israel's problem. Of course Israel needs to be active and has the right to defend its citizens. The Europeans need to do more and work together with the U.S. We hope the U.S. will expand the number of companies on the Iran boycott list, and include all of the institutions connected to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. We also have to make sure that proper action will be directed against the Iranian banks as quickly as possible. This is not to punish the people of Iran, but to limit the ability of the government to engage in global terror and support its nuclear weapons program.
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