In Case You Missed It: "New York Legislature Passes Iran Sanctions Bill"

In Case You Missed It: "New York Legislature Passes Iran Sanctions Bill" New York Legislature Passes Iran Sanctions Bill By Samuel Rubenfeld The Wall Street Journal January 9, 2012 To watch video of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's Monday press conference, click here. Both houses of the New York State legislature passed a bill on Monday barring companies that do business with Iran's energy sector from signing contracts with the state. The state bill, which was authorized under federal legislation passed in 2010, requires New York's Office of General Services to identify people or entities that invest more than $20 million in goods, services or credit in the Iranian energy sector, and those found doing so would be banned from entering or renewing contracts with state and local governments. "The announcement this weekend of the launch of a second major uranium enrichment site is further proof that Iran is a known sponsor of international terrorism," said Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in a statement. "Companies that invest in Iran's energy sector only provide greater resources to advance further acts of terror." ... ... United Against Nuclear Iran, an activist group, praised the vote in the New York legislature, and encouraged more states to take up a model bill the group wrote that imposes sanctions under the 2010 legislation. "Three of America's four biggest states have now taken strong, meaningful stands against the [Iranian] regime, and UANI will continue working with lawmakers in other states to pass more contract debarment laws," said Mark D. Wallace, the president of the group, in a statement. Click here to read the full article. Click here to watch excerpts from Speaker Silver's press conference yesterday. Click here to visit UANI's model legislation home 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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