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Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney has written UN Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon calling on the the United Nations to revoke an invitation
to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmandinejad to speak to the General
Assembly next week. If he should appear in the United States, he
should be "greeted with an indictment under the Genocide Convention,"
wrote Romney. See Romney's letter at
http://www.mittromney.com/img/pdf/UN_Letter.pdf.

Romney says the Iranian president is guilty of Genocide because of his
regime's call for the destruction of Israel, for support of
Hezbollah's terror campaign, and defying the world community in its
pursuit of nuclear weapons. Iran is also supporting Shia militia
extremists and violence that is taking the lives of American soldiers
in Iraq and undermining the Iraqi government.

Romney thinks President Ahmadinejad's threats "about wiping Israel off
the map" and Iran's support for terrorist actions against Israel
warrant indictment under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention. The
Convention was used for the first time to bring Rwandan leaders to
justice.

Finally, Romney says that, if the UN fails to confront the Iranian
regime, the United States must reconsider its level of support and
funding to the United Nations.

Iran's state-owned Fars news agency said Monday that the president has
been granted a visa to attend the session and would be in the U.S. for
three days beginning Sept. 23. It said several members of
Ahmadinejad's entourage were still awaiting visas.

Ahead of previous visits to the U.N. by Ahmadinejad, critics called on
the State Department to deny him a visa.

Under a 1947 "headquarters agreement" establishing the permanent seat
of the U.N. in New York City, the U.S. gave foreign delegates
unimpeded access to a demarcated "headquarters district."

The Reagan administration in 1988 denied PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat a
visa, citing his "associations with terrorism." The General Assembly
reacted by voting to hold a special session in Geneva, which Arafat
addressed.