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44 Nobels Call for Action Against Iran |
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Posted 2/16/2010 at 5:41 PM by Bradlee A in Laureates News Affiliate: PeaceJam HQ |
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Jody Williams, Co-Recipient of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, speaks at a PeaceJam Public Talk in Denver, CO. Photo by Bradlee Arendt.
Spiegel Online International has an article about our own Betty Williams and Jody Williams taking a stand against the Iranian Government as world tensions heat up with the country.
Dieter Bednarz and Erich Follath wrote: Can 44 Nobel Prize winners be wrong?
The group of Nobel laureates, which included such luminaries as Nobel Peace laureates Betty Williams and Jody Williams, the writer Wole Soyinka and the economist James Heckman, as well as many leading figures from the fields of medicine, chemistry and physics, made a dramatic appeal in a full-page ad published in the International Herald Tribune on Feb. 9. "Dear President Obama, President Sarkozy, President Medvedev, Prime Minister Brown and Chancellor Merkel," it began. "How long can we stand idly by and watch this scandal in Iran unfold?" |
Check out the very interesting read here.
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