UANI Calls on Honeywell to End Its Business in Iran

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 8, 2010 Contact: Kimmie Lipscomb, press@uani.com Phone: (212) 554-3296 UANI Calls on Honeywell to End Its Business in Iran New York, NY - United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) on Thursday called on Honeywell to end its business in Iran. Honeywell is listed on UANI's Iran Business Registry (IBR). Honeywellauthorizes dealers in Iran to sell its technologically-advanced surveillance and security products. These products can be used to secure Iran's oil pipelines and nuclear reactors. Honeywellalso conducts business in Iran through its foreign subsidiary, Universal Oil Products (UOP). UOP is currently engaged in expanding and upgrading the Arak Refinery in Iran. The project could nearly triple Iran's gasoline production. Given the nature, size and importance of the Arak project, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), must be involved. Any Honeywell business in Iran is of even greater concern because Honeywell is a leading federal contractor. In the past decade Honeywell has received over $12.9 billion in U.S. federal contracts and grants. Honeywell profits from the U.S. government while at the same time undermining the strategic interests of the U.S. vis-à-vis Iran. In a letter to David M. Cote, the CEO of Honeywell, UANI President, Ambassador Mark Wallace wrote: United Against Nuclear Iran ("UANI") has learned that Honeywell is selling Honeywell Security products through authorized distributors in Iran. Such technologically-advanced products can be used for surveillance purposes and to secure oil pipelines and nuclear reactors. The purpose of this letter is to clarify those dealings. **** In the face of overwhelming bipartisan support in the U.S. Congress to economically isolate Iran's oil and natural gas industry, Honeywell continues to make key contributions to the development of Iran's oil industry. **** [W]e deplore your decision to continue to aid Iran in its production of gasoline and to maintain sales of surveillance equipment in Iran. **** There are other products listed in Honeywell Security's Middle East catalog that could support the ability of the Iranian regime to secure its nuclear facilities and/or to monitor its own citizens. **** Given the prevalence of Honeywell products in Iran it is clear that the IRGC is likely a major beneficiary, owner and/or operator of Honeywell's advanced technological equipment. **** UANI calls on Honeywell to clarify, definitively, whether it does business (through an affiliate or subsidiary) with the IRGC and whether its equipment in Iran is used in the security of Iran's nuclear facilities or the surveillance and repression of the Iranian population. Such use would, of course, be cause for great concern by the international community. **** UANI calls on Honeywell to cease doing business in Iran. **** Given the urgent nature of this issue please let me hear from you on or before April 15th, 2010 with your response. Click hereto read UANI's Letter to Honeywell. Click hereto send a message to Honeywell. # # # United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is a program of the American Coalition Against Nuclear Iran, Inc., a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran should concern every American and be unacceptable to the community of nations. Since 1979 the Iranian regime, most recently under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's leadership, has demonstrated increasingly threatening behavior and rhetoric toward the US and the West. Iran continues to defy the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations in their attempts to monitor its nuclear activities. A number of Arab states have warned that Iran's development of nuclear weapons poses a threat to Middle East stability and could provoke a regional nuclear arms race. In short, the prospect of a nuclear armed Iran is a danger to world peace. United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is a non-partisan, broad-based coalition that is united in a commitment to prevent Iran from fulfilling its ambition to become a regional super-power possessing nuclear weapons. UANI is an issue-based coalition in which each coalition member will have its own interests as well as the collective goal of advancing an Iran free of nuclear weapons. 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