UANI Applauds Layher, California Contractor, for Ending Its Business in Iran

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 29, 2011 Contact: Nathan Carleton, press@uani.com Phone: (212) 554-3296 UANI Applauds Layher, California Contractor, for Ending Its Business in Iran New York, NY - United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) on Wednesday applauded Layher for ending its business in Iran. This month Layher, a German construction group, contacted UANI in response to a notice it received from California's Department of General Services. As the Financial Times reported this week, California has been notifying state contractors which have reportedly done business in Iran that they potentially will be barred from state government contracts under the terms of California's 2010 Iran Contracting Act legislation. Layher entered into discussions with UANI and agreed to sign UANI's Iran Business Declaration certifying that it has ended all business in Iran and will forego any future business there. UANI will now list Layher as withdrawn on the Iran Business Registry (IBR), which California has been using to vet state contractors. Said UANI President, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace: We applaud Layher for ending its business in Iran. California has changed the game with contract debarment, and is getting real results in pressuring companies to end their business in Iran. Layher has made the right decision by pulling out of Iran, and UANI urges other companies to follow its lead. UANI hopes to work with more states to bar companies which receive state contracts from doing business in Iran. Click here to view Layher's signed Iran Business Declaration. Click here to read the Financial Times article, "California tightens screw on trade with Iran." Click here to see UANI's model legislation page. ### 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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