InterContinental Hotels Group

"Iran’s apparent use of 20 U.S.-based hotel properties [and InterContinental Hotels Group] as polling sites for its recent presidential election has raised questions about the hotel owners’ compliance with U.S. sanctions and the appropriateness of their involvement in a vote that Washington criticized as neither free nor fair. The 20 hotel properties whose addresses were listed by Iran belong to six U.S. companies ... and British-based InterContinental Hotels Group." (Voa News, "Iran’s Absentee Voting Events at US Hotels Raise Sanctions, Ethics Questions," 6/25/21). (https://www.voanews.com/a/middle-east_voa-news-iran_irans-absentee-voting-events-us-hotels-raise-sanctions-ethics-questions/6207471.html)

"On Tuesday, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) called on the InterContinental Hotels Group to reverse its decision to host Iran's delegation during this month's meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, Switzerland. UANI recently learned of InterContinental's decision, which comes as Ahmed Shaheed, UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran, released a new report which found that Iran executed 670 individuals last year, including ethnic minorities, juveniles, and homosexuals." (UANI, "UANI Calls on InterContinental Hotels Group to Reverse Decision to Host Iranian Delegation During Human Rights Council Meeting in Geneva," 3/13/12) (https://unitedagainstnucleariran.com/press-releases/uani-calls-intercontinental-hotels-group-reverse-decision-host-iranian-delegation-dur)

InterContinental London Park Lane Hotel has agreed to serve as the venue for the Euromoney Iran Conference (the “Conference”) on May 19, 2016. (Euromoney Iran Conference Website, “Iran: Reconnecting with the International Financial Community”). (http://www.euromoneyconferences.com/Iran.html)

InterContinental Hotels Group (“InterContinental”) Hotel, Crowne Plaza Berlin - Potsdamer Platz, has agreed to host the Iran Post Sanctions Business Forum (the “Forum”) in Berlin on January 24-25, 2017.   (https://www.c5-online.com/iran-post-sanctions-business-forum-500l17-ber/)

"The Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran 'requests the pleasure' of my company to dine with H.E. Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The dinner is at the Intercontinental Hotel with names carefully written out at all the place settings around a rectangular table. (Time, "My Dinner with Ahmadinejad," 9/26/07) (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1665579,00.html)

"The warmer tone colored most of the approximately two-hour meeting, held at the Barclay Intercontinental Hotel in midtown Manhattan. Ahmadinejad then hosted a meeting for American religious figures from Christian, Jewish, and Muslim groups, and tonight he will meet with policy watchers and former U.S. officials in a meeting organized by the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations. The unusual efforts appear aimed at de-demonizing the hard-line Ahmadinejad's image in the West, and particularly in the United States, which is leading an effort to seek economic sanctions at the U.N. for Iran's defiance of a Security Council order to halt the enrichment of uranium." (US News, "Iran's Ahmadinejad: 'Can't we just be friends?'", 9/20/06) (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060920/20ahmadinejad.htm)

"In a day of pure New York drama at Columbia University yesterday, Ahmadinejad expressed skepticism of the Holocaust, questioned 'who truly was involved' in the Sept. 11 attacks, denied oppressing women and claimed there are no gays in Iran....He was on ABC, CNN and PBS and met a group of anti-Zionist Jewish rabbis in his InterContinental The Barclay New York Hotel suite.... 8 a.m. Gives an interview to Charlie Rose of PBS and to Italian television at InterContinental The Barclay New York Hotel." (NY Daily News, "Grinning madman squirms at Columbia," 9/25/07) (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/09/25/2007-09-25_grinning_madman_ahmadinejad_squirms_at_c.html)