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In Case You Missed It: UANI Success Featured in Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Reuters Major Newspapers Report Huawei's Iran Pullback, UANI's Role Huawei to Scale Back Business in Iran By Loretta Chao, Steve Stecklow, and Farnaz Fassihi The Wall Street Journal December 10, 2011 Chinese telecommunications- equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. said it will scale back its business in Iran, where the company provides services to government-controlled telecom operators, following reports that Iranian police were using mobile-network technology to track down and arrest dissidents. Shenzhen-based Huawei will "voluntarily restrict its business development there by no longer seeking new customers and limiting its business activities with existing customers," according to a statement Friday on the company's website. It said the company was making the move due to the "increasingly complex situation in Iran." Company spokesmen declined to elaborate. ... ... Activists hailed the company's decision, noting it was the first time a major Chinese company had decided to scale back its business in Iran. Until now, Iran has viewed its partnership with Chinese companies as a solid alternative to Western contracts. "This is a significant milestone," said Mark Wallace, president of United Against Nuclear Iran and a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. "For the first time a major Chinese business is pulling back from Iran in the face of mounting international scorn for Iran's brutal regime." The New York-based group had been pressuring Huawei to leave Iran and had been communicating privately with the company for several weeks. A spokesman for the U.S. State Department said it welcomed Huawei's announcement, adding that the U.S. "calls on all firms to exercise vigilance when doing business with Iran and ensure that any business does not contribute to the Government of Iran's ability to repress its own people." ... Click here to read the full Wall Street Journal article, "Huawei to Scale Back Business in Iran." **** Huawei pledges not to pursue Iran business By Kathrin Hille and Geoff Dyer Financial Times December 9, 2011 Huawei Technologies has pledged not to pursue new business in Iran as the world's second-largest telecom infrastructure vendor seeks to contain damage to its reputation in Western markets. The rare move follows criticism especially in the US - a market in which the Chinese telecom equipment maker is struggling - that equipment Huawei sold to Iran's state-controlled mobile operators allegedly helped the Iranian authorities locate and arrest dissidents and censor the news. "Due to the increasingly complex situation in Iran, Huawei will voluntarily restrict its business development there by no longer seeking new customers and limiting its business activities with existing customers," Huawei said on Friday. Huawei's multinational competitors such as Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks have also been active in the Iranian market, but the Chinese company has been expanding there more rapidly over the past two years following political unrest. The company has close to 1,000 staff in the country. Sources close to the company said it had held talks with United Against Nuclear Iran, an American pressure group which had called on Huawei to pull out of Iran. Mark Wallace, a former US ambassador the United Nations who is president of United Against Nuclear Iran, welcomed Huawei's decision. "For the first time, a major Chinese business has joined the worldwide movement to isolate Iran. The message to companies around the world is clear: Iran is off limits to responsible businesses," he said. The Huawei announcement comes as political pressure is mounting in the US on companies that do business with Iran. Last week the Senate passed a measure by 100-0 which would place sanctions on banks which deal with the Iranian central bank. ... Click here to read the full Financial Times article, "Huawei pledges not to pursue Iran business." **** China's Huawei to scale back Iran operations Reuters December 9, 2011 Huawei Technologies , China's biggest telecoms equipment manufacturer, said it would not pursue new business in Iran after a U.S.-based watchdog said that authorities in Tehran were using the firm's equipment to track dissidents. It said in a statement posted on its website on Friday that it "will voluntarily restrict its business development (in Iran) by no longer seeking new customers and limiting its business activities with existing customers." "Huawei's business in Iran has been in full compliance with all applicable laws and regulations including those of the UN, the United States and the European Union," it added. The U.S.-based pressure group, United Against Nuclear Iran, welcomed the move but called on Huawei to withdraw completely from the country. In November, the group accused Huawei of "helping to strengthen and bolster the capabilities of a regime that is pursuing an illegal nuclear weapons program and is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism." Huawei said it will continue to provide "necessary services" for communication networks already delivered or being delivered to Iran. ... Click here to read the full Reuters article, "China's Huawei to scale back Iran operations." ### 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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