Following Los Angeles Times Op-ed, UANI Announces Crane Manufacturer Tadano's End to Business in Iran

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 12, 2011 Contact: Nathan Carleton, press@uani.com Phone: (212) 554-3296 Following Los Angeles Times Op-ed, UANI Announces Crane Manufacturer Tadano's End to Business in Iran New York, NY - United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) on Tuesday applauded Japanese crane manufacturer Tadano for ending its business in Iran, where the Iranian regime had misused its cranes to stage brutal public executions. On July 6, UANI President, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, wrote a Los Angeles Times op-ed, "Iran's Execution Binge," which detailed the Iranian regime's use of construction cranes for public hangings. The op-ed subsequently ran in other newspapers including the Philadelphia Inquirer, Providence Journal, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Albany Times Union and The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA). Ambassador Wallace wrote that Tadano, whose logo had appeared in photographs of Iran's public hangings, "should take the principled stand of renouncing their business ties with the regime until Iran becomes a civilized member of the international community." Tadano officials began communicating with UANI, and informed UANI that Tadano would end all of its business in Iran, including severing ties with its distributor IER Iran and the Iranian company Part Loader Co. UANI commends Tadano for this decision. Said UANI President, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace: Tadano is a responsible corporation and its decision is another example of an international company taking the right action in the wake of UANI's Cranes Campaign. UANI commends Tadano for its decision to end its business in Iran, and we thank Tadano's executives for their responsiveness. UANI hopes that even more crane companies will end their business in Iran as the bright light of world attention is cast on Iran's barbaric execution binge. Tadano's decision follows a similar one by Terex, which also recently ended its business in Iran. The UANI "Cranes Campaign" highlights the Iranian regime's abhorrent executions by hanging from construction cranes, and the disturbing reality that these cranes are coming from Western and Asian companies. Click here to view the Op-Ed on the Los Angeles Times website. Click here to learn more about UANI's Cranes Campaign. ### 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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