On Sunday, April 27, 2014 at 11:30 a.m., the Yom Hashoah Mobilization Committee, with the support of the New York Association of Holocaust Survivors, the Orthodox Union, the National Council of Young Israel, Zionist Organization of America, United Against Nuclear Iran, and many other organizations, will lead a rally in front of the Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations. We will gather to commemorate the millions who perished in the Holocaust and to issue a warning that Iran, the world’s foremost leader of state-sponsored terrorism, must not be allowed to have the means to produce nuclear weapons.

We have reached a critical juncture. American military analysts believe that Iran will be ready to test an intercontinental ballistic missile by next year. It’s only a matter of time before Iran will perfect the design of a nuclear weapon to fit on top of a long-range missile.

Tough sanctions brought Iran to the negotiating table and the threat of additional tough sanctions is our only insurance policy to defend against Iranian deception during negotiations. The bi-partisan Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2013, introduced by Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of N.J. and Senator Mark Kirk, Republican of Illinois and co-sponsored by over half the Senate, mandates additional sanctions if Iran violates the interim Joint Plan of Action or fails to reach a final agreement. This Act has the power to compel Iran to cooperate and act in good faith and insure that there is a complete and verifiable termination of Iran’s illicit nuclear weapons program. Bringing the Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2013 to a vote is an urgent matter of national security.

The American people have good reasons to distrust Iran’s intentions and its president. In May of 2013, President Rouhani boasted on Iran’s State T.V. that when he was Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Iran violated its agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency. Most recently, in February, President Rouhani stated unequivocally, that “Iran will not dismantle its centrifuges under any circumstances.”

The Islamic Republic of Iran has stated that Israel is “doomed to annihilation.” “No longer can anyone say that…modern society could never produce….a monster whose intention was to destroy, to slay, and to exterminate all Jews, young and old in a single day. How naïve it now seems that people seriously believed that mass extermination of human beings could never be contemplated by civilized people…”