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Wiesenthal Center urges Merkel to cancel Iran trip
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Simon Wiesenthal Center writes to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, asking her to cancel a planned visit to Tehran in October.
The center’s director for international relations, Shimon Samuels, also expresses “astonish[ment] at news that you are to be accompanied by the Berlin Staatskapelle, led by its musical director, Daniel Barenboim.” The Israeli-Argentinian conductor is in talks over a performance by the Berlin State Opera in Tehran.
The letter also highlights recent comments by an Iranian official, who said that Israel “should be annihilated” and that the thawing relations with the West would not translate into a shift in Tehran’s position concerning the Jewish state.
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