UANI Co-Signs Letter to President Obama, Calls for Further Nonproliferation Efforts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 16, 2010 Contact: Kimmie Lipscomb, press@uani.com Phone: (212) 554-3296 UANI CO-SIGNS LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA, CALLS FOR FURTHER NONPROLIFERATION EFFORTS New York, NY - United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) today announced that it co-signed a letter to President Obama calling for further efforts in nonproliferation of easy-to-militarize nuclear fuel making activities, such as uranium enrichment and spent fuel recycling. In particular, the co-signers of the letter call on the U.S. government to declare that it will not provide assistance to aid foreign government-backed firms to expand their nuclear business in the U.S. unless they have applied the nonproliferation standards established in the U.S.-UAE civilian nuclear cooperation agreement. The letter is co-signed by a bipartisan group of foreign policy and non-proliferation experts, including UANI President, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, and UANI Board Members Henry Sokolski, Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and Gary Milhollin, Director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control. In a letter to President Obama, the co-signers wrote: We are writing to ask that you begin to apply a more forward-leaning policy to prevent the international spread of easy-to-militarize nuclear fuel making activities, such as uranium enrichment and spent fuel recycling. As part of this policy, we believe the U.S. government should declare that it will not provide US federal energy loan guarantees, federal contracts, or other subsidies or assistance to help foreign government-backed nuclear firms expand their nuclear business in the US unless they have committed to apply the nonproliferation standards (including with respect to enrichment and spent fuel recycling) established in the U.S.-United Arab Emirates (UAE) civilian nuclear cooperation agreement in all of their future civilian nuclear cooperation agreements. **** These points are basic. The success of U.S. efforts to reduce the dangers of nuclear proliferation depends critically upon the U.S. upholding the standards it sets and doing all it can to encourage others to do likewise. That is why we believe that guaranteeing billions of dollars in federal loans to foreign nuclear suppliers, such as EDF, to expand their nuclear business in the U.S. without first requiring such suppliers to uphold the nonproliferation standards that US nuclear vendors must live by is not just bad business, but dangerous. Click here to read the full text of the letter. # # # 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. The Objectives of United Against a Nuclear Iran Inform the public about the nature of the Iranian regime, including its desire and intent to possess nuclear weapons, as well as Iran's role as a state sponsor of global terrorism, and a major violator of human rights at home and abroad; Heighten awareness nationally and internationally about the danger that a nuclear armed Iran poses to the region and the world; Mobilize public support, utilize media outreach, and persuade our elected leaders to voice a robust and united American opposition to a nuclear Iran; Lay the groundwork for effective US policies in coordination with European and other allies; Persuade the regime in Tehran to desist from its quest for nuclear weapons, while striving not to punish the Iranian people, and; Promote efforts that focus on vigorous national and international, social, economic, political and diplomatic measures. UANI is led by an advisory board of outstanding national figures representing all sectors of our country.

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