Click here for linkIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is set to face angry protests during his visit to New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly.
United Against Nuclear Iran, an advocacy group, has demanded that managers of the upscale Warwick Hotel refuse to host Ahmadinejad and his delegation and have urged a boycott of the international hotel chain.
"Ahmadinejad is the leader of a criminal regime allied with Al-Qaeda and other terrorists, and guilty of atrocious human rights violations," UANI president Mark Wallace said in a statement.
The group has also paid for a billboard to be placed near New York's famed Times Square showing Ahmadinejad and stating: "As we remember 9/11 ten years later, Al-Qaeda's silent partner is coming to New York."
Western countries have repeatedly accused the Islamic republic of seeking to develop an atomic weapon -- charges Tehran has vigorously denied.
Tehran has been hit by a series of UN sanctions for its refusal to rein in its controversial uranium enrichment program.
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