By: Eric Hertha, Hospitality Business News
September 19,2010
According to the Foreign Affairs Committe of The National Council of Resistance of Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has found it almost impossible to reserve a room at any of the normal New York hotels that usually accomodate world leaders. According to the article, Ahmadinejad is scheduled to attend a UN General Assembly meeting next week in New York.
Weary of facing the same level of difficulty in reserving hotels as last year, the clerical regime had ordered its permanent representative at the UN since July to start searching for hotels and use all necessary means to reserve rooms. But, despite the extensive efforts and investments by Ahmadinejad’s deputy chief of ceremonies, prominent hotels in New York have refused to host the clerical regime’s president, the article said.
Mohammad Torshizi, the regime’s permanent representative at the UN has told Tehran in a report, “In view of some political issues, it is very difficult to find hotels for the Islamic Republic. The permanent UN representative office has with extreme difficulty succeeded in reserving rooms at Hilton in Manhattan, but we cannot count on it until the day we are actually there because pressures can lead to cancellation. Of course, the hotel has limited space and is small. It is not meant for the presidency.”
The article states that the regime’s UN envoy is reportedly working even harder to keep the reservation in the small Manhattan hotel a secret, fearing a backlash by New York residents against the hotel’s management as there is widespread anger in the city against Ahmadinejad’s visit.
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