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Jewish Group Want to Ban Ahmadinejad`s From Germany

Rabbi Marvin Hier of the German Jewish community is planning to push for a total ban on the Iranian president from visiting Germany during the 2006 World Cup this summer where the Iranian national team will be playing due to anti-semetic remarks he has made.

Hier also believes Berlin had a "moral obligation to state publicly that his visit would be unwelcome, saying that, "I feel that the international community, and in this case Germany as the host country, have to say something and it`s not good enough to say they are hoping he won`t come."

Hier added that it was unacceptable to say that any World Cup visit by Ahmadinejad would be a matter of sports, not politics.