Contact: Valerie Mosher, Concerned Women for America, 202-488-7000, ext. 126

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 /Christian Newswire/ -- Concerned Women for America (CWA) is joining an interfaith coalition in a rally to protest a dinner honoring Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City this Thursday, September 25, 2008.  Led by Women International and the Jewish Action Alliance, the protest will begin at 5:30 p.m. in front of the Hyatt and will include representatives from a variety of organizations such as Christian Solidarity International, and the Catholic League.

In town to address the United Nations General Assembly, presumably to defend Iran's developing nuclear program, Ahmadinejad will sit down with the Mennonite Central Committee, Quaker United Nations Office, Religions for Peace, the American Friends Service Committee, the Episcopal Church and the World Council of Churches-United Nations Liaison Office who are hosting the event.

Wendy Wright, President of CWA, states, "As if beating, imprisoning and killing women, Christians and other Iranians is not enough, Iranian leaders' thirst for death spills over its borders to kill and wound American military and innocent civilians in Iraq.  Ahmadinejad has grabbed the baton of his genocidal predecessors to threaten the extinction of the Jewish people and their homeland Israel.  This is history repeating itself, proving again that evil exists and there is never a lack of 'useful idiots' to support the embodiment of evil.

"The U.N. was created in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust with the cries still ringing in the world's ears of 'Never Again'.  Yet U.N. leaders and the groups hosting Ahmadinejad have grabbed the baton of the appeasers and accomplices of mass murderers of yesteryear.  We stand proudly with our Jewish friends and vehemently oppose so-called religious Christian groups who defame the work and words of Jesus Christ, a Jew who lived in Israel and brought true peace by confronting -- not appeasing -- evil.  These groups have lost the right to call themselves Christian leaders when they honor a man responsible for persecuting Christians, oppressing women, killing innocent people, and threatening the extinction of Israel."

For complete details of the rally, please visit www.925rally.org.

Concerned Women for America is the nation's largest public policy women's organization.