UANI Applauds Huawei for Ending New Business with Iran Following Discussions with UANI, Calls for Full Pullout

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 9, 2011 Contact: Nathan Carleton, press@uani.com Phone: (212) 554-3296 UANI Applauds Huawei for Ending New Business with Iran Following Discussions with UANI, Calls for Full Pullout Telecommunications Firm is First Major Chinese Company to Announce Pullback from Iran New York, NY - United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) President, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, issued the following statement on Friday regarding Huawei's announcement that it would stop seeking new business in Iran and limit existing business, after discussions over the last two months with UANI. We applaud Huawei for taking an important first step in pulling back from its business in Iran, and we thank Huawei for its cooperation and responsiveness over the past months. 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. While this is an important first step, we call on Huawei to fully end its business with the brutal regime in Iran. Given the regime's history of misusing telecommunications technology to conduct espionage on citizens, there is simply no justification for doing any such business in Iran. On November 1, UANI publicly called on Huawei to end its business in Iran, noting that the company was dominating the country's mobile phone sector, and enabling the regime to track and spy on protesters and citizens. After Huawei responded by defending its business in Iran, UANI publicly denounced that defense and continued discussions with Huawei officials regarding pulling back from Iran. Click here to read UANI's November 1 letter to Huawei. Click here to read UANI's response to Huawei's November 7 defense of its business in Iran. Click here to view UANI's "Tech & Telecom Campaign" 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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