UANI Statement on Success of Jennifer Lopez Fiat Parody Video

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 24, 2012 Contact: Nathan Carleton, press@uani.com Phone: (212) 554-3296 UANI Statement on Success of Jennifer Lopez Fiat Parody Video [View video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXmpB0XDDCA] New York, NY - United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) President, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, issued the following statement today regarding the success of UANI's Fiat parody video, featuring Jennifer Lopez. The UANI video already has more than 30,000 YouTube views, and has been covered by dozens of national media outlets: We appreciate the overwhelming and positive response to our Fiat campaign and Jennifer Lopez parody video. Thousands of our supporters have been writing to Fiat, and expressing their opposition to Fiat's continued irresponsible business in Iran. Fiat should hear the message loud and clear: it must end its business in Iran. American consumers have a choice in the car that they drive, and they will always choose one produced by a responsible automaker to one made by a company that brazenly does business with the brutal Iranian regime. We again call on Ms. Lopez to use her leading status as a global spokesperson to speak out against Fiat's business in Iran, and the regime's appalling human rights abuses. Her silence is unfortunate and disappointing. UANI contacted Ms. Lopez and Fiat executives earlier this month regarding Fiat's business in Iran and the Iranian regime's human rights abuses and nuclear ambitions. UANI has yet to receive responses of any sort. Fiat sells and distributes trucks in Iran, through its subsidiary Iveco, which have been used by the Iranian regime to transport ballistic missiles and stage gruesome public executions. Fiat also continues to operate in Iran's automobile market, and is reportedly planning to expand its presence there by opening a luxury Maserati dealership in Tehran. UANI's campaign against Fiat began in 2011, and included advertisements in New York newspapers [see additional ad here], and a protest at the New York International Auto Show. Click here to view the video. Click here to view supporting facts for the video. Click here to read UANI's full letter to Jennifer Lopez. Click here to read UANI's full letter to Fiat. Click here to send a message to Fiat. ### 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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