Stop the bomb

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Stop the Bomb (STB) is a non-partisan initiative that campaigns with prominent support against doing business with the Iranian regime and for the support of the secular, constitutional and democratic opposition in Iran. The initiative went public in Austria in December 2007 and is supported there by the association “MEDEA - Middle East Democracy Alliance / Alliance for Democracy in the Middle East”. The alliance has also existed in Germany since October 2008, where it is supported by the “Mideast Freedom Forum” association. In addition to the regime's terror against its own people, Stop the Bomb is primarily concerned with the threat to Israel and the West posed by the Iranian regime and the Iranian nuclear program .

petition

A central instrument of the campaign is a petition, the Austrian version of which has been signed by over 5,400 people from all over the world. More than 4900 individuals have so far signed the German petition. The petitions warn of Iran's nuclear armament plans and demand from German and Austrian companies to cease their business relations with the state. In addition, the initiative criticizes the situation in Iran itself: “In Iran, protests by students and trade unions are systematically crushed, women are brutally oppressed, national and religious minorities, gays and lesbians and opponents of the regime are persecuted. Executions and torture, including those of minors, are the order of the day, arbitrary state decisions, poverty and corruption are omnipresent. "

The initiative demands that the German and Austrian federal governments adopt sanctions against Iran, support the Iranian opposition and ban Hezbollah domestically.

Prominent supporters of the petitions are:

Actions

In addition to the petition, the initiative is promoting various public actions, including demonstrations and lectures. The spokeswoman and a board member of the Austrian initiative also published a book on the subject (“Iran - Analysis of an Islamic dictatorship and its European supporters”).

  • At the beginning of May 2008 the international conference “The Iranian Threat” took place in Berlin and Vienna.
  • On May 14, 2008, Stop the Bomb protested in front of and at the general meeting of OMV in Vienna, which plans to conclude a billion-dollar deal with the Iranian regime.
  • In August 2008 Stop the Bomb organized a rally against "Steiner" business in Iran in Siegen.
  • At the end of October 2008, Stop the Bomb demonstrated against the visit of the former Iranian President Chatami in Vienna.
  • On November 27th, 2008 members of Stop the Bomb demonstrated against a seminar of the German-Iranian Chamber of Commerce in Hamburg.
  • On January 28, 2009 there were protests by Stop the Bomb against the European Gas Conference in Vienna.
  • Campaign activists also spoke up at Siemens' shareholders' meeting in January 2009 and criticized Siemens' trade relations with Iran.
  • In February 2009, Stop the Bomb called for a rally as part of the Berlinale . The occasion was the film Letters to the President .
  • On April 1, 2009, vigils and rallies against support for the Iranian regime took place in Vienna, Berlin and The Hague on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the proclamation of the "Islamic Republic" in Iran.
  • On October 11, 2010, the campaign demonstrated with rallies in Vienna, Zurich, Berlin, London and Düsseldorf against doing business with the Iranian regime.
  • On February 27, 2011, 200 people took part in a campaign rally against the European-Iranian commercial bank in Hamburg.

Controversy

On March 9, 2005, a group of members of the Trotskyist group Arbeiterstandpunkt disrupted an event of the Stop-the-Bomb campaign in the Viennese cultural center Café 7stern. A visitor, Mary Kreutzer , was physically attacked and injured by Michael Pröbsting, one of the group's spokesmen at the time. In March of the following year, he was convicted of assault.

At a conference of the initiative in Vienna in 2008, the historian Benny Morris described a preventive strike against the Iranian nuclear program, including with non-conventional weapons, as necessary. Furthermore, an employee of the official news agency of the Iranian regime IRNA had been denied access to the event.

Fabian Köhler accused Stop the Bomb 2012 in Neues Deutschland of warmongering and Islamophobia. The organization allegedly harassed and defamed people and organizations that do business with Iran outside of nuclear or military concerns. Stop the Bomb rejects these allegations.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b ZVR, Federal Ministry of the Interior : MEDEA - Middle East Democracy Alliance / Alliance for Democracy in the Middle East, ZVR number 082913869, entry date March 4, 2008; Chairman: Heinrich Ehlers; Deputy Chairman: Hava Eve Bugajer-Gleitman; Treasurer: Stephan Grigat .
  2. ↑ www.handelsregister.de : Mideast Freedom Forum, VR 27443 Berlin-Charlottenburg, entry date March 7, 2008;
  3. ↑ http://de.stopthebomb.net/de/start/deutschland/petition-unterschreiben/alle-unterschriften.html?no_cache=1#c324
  4. ↑ http://de.stopthebomb.net/de/start/deutschland/petition-unterschreiben.html#c324
  5. ↑ Near east report Interviews with Austrian activist Simone D. Hartmann AIPAC April 1, 2008
  6. ↑ Stephan Grigat , Simone Dinah Hartmann (ed.): Der Iran - Analysis of an Islamic dictatorship and its European supporters . Study publisher: Innsbruck - Bozen - Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7065-4599-0
  7. ↑ http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1227702350844&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / fr.jpost.com  
  8. ↑ http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung.php?schluessel=OTS_20090127_OTS0063&ch=politik
  9. ↑ http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/27/1002551/demonstrators-demand-siemens-end-iran-dealings
  10. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jta.org
  11. ↑ http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=191028
  12. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/kommunales/article1798788/Protest-gegen-iranische-Handelsbank.html
  13. ^ Karl Pfeifer , Mag. Michael Pröbsting convicted with final and absolute judgment, HaGalil, August 8, 2006, accessed on October 7, 2014
  14. ↑ http://derstandard.at/3325059 War threats from the lecture hall Der Standard at. May 20, 2008, accessed November 11, 2012
  15. ↑ http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/regionen/Iran/kampagne.html Your mother builds atomic bombs New Germany from September 5, 2012, retrieved from AG Friedensforschung on October 7, 2014
  16. ↑ http://de.stopthebomb.net/de/text-audio-und-video/texte-aus-der-stb-koalition/neues-deutschland.html