New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. spoke out today at the “Stand for Freedom in Iran Rally”  in response to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s address to the UN General Assembly.

“In Iran we can promote human rights and support the democratic aspirations of the Iranian people while withholding economic support for a regime that threatens the United States and its close allies with nuclear annihilation,” Thompson said to several thousand people in attendance. “As New York City Comptroller, I have used my power as chief investment advisor to the city’s five Pension Funds to ensure that no American firm is able to invest in state sponsors of terror, including Iran, through their foreign subsidiaries.”

Thompson joined New York State Governor David Paterson, New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel and many other elected officials and activists at the Dag Hammerskjold Plaza rally.

 “Today we stand with the people of Iran by opposing the undemocratic regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,” Thompson said.

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