In Case You Missed It: "Bowing to Pressure, Porsche Joins Hyundai in Ending Business with Iran"

In Case You Missed It: "Bowing to Pressure, Porsche Joins Hyundai in Ending Business with Iran" UANI and NYC Public Advocate's Success with Porsche Featured in The New York Times, FoxNews.com Iran: Official Expresses Interest In Resolving Nuclear Dispute By Rick Gladstone The New York Times April 17, 2012 ... On Monday, United Against Nuclear Iran, a pro-sanctions group based in New York, said that Porsche AG, the German auto company, would end its business in Iran, making it the second carmaker to do so this month. Click here to read the full article on The New York Times website. Bowing to pressure, Porsche joins Hyundai in ending business with Iran By Jonathan Wachtel FoxNews.com April 16, 2012 Porsche has become the latest international automaker to pull its business out of Iran in an apparent response to an effort by two U.S.-based advocacy groups to step up pressure on the Tehran regime, FoxNews.com has learned. United Against a Nuclear Iran and Iran Watch List launched their campaign in 2010 after they discovered the Iranian auto industry, the 13th-largest in the world, is dominated by members of the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. "We have to send a message to that regime that no longer can it be business as usual until they renounce their nuclear weapons program and stop sponsoring terrorism around the world," said former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mark Wallace, who heads United Against a Nuclear Iran. Wallace says the auto sector feeds the Iranian regime not only as "a massive source of revenue," but also as a means of accessing advanced foreign technologies and products. ... "You can't have it both ways. If you want to do business in Iran, forget about doing business in the United States, forget about the American consumer, because the American consumer is not going to stand for companies propping up the Iranian regime," said New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who heads up Iran Watch List. "The leadership in Iran is painfully aware of the fact that companies are leaving," de Blasio said, pointing out that only the elites in the Iranian government and oil industry can afford luxury cars such as Porsches. Wallace singled out Nissan and Peugeot as companies putting up resistance to leaving Iran entirely. "Nissan appears to be the vehicle of choice of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who often rides in an armored Nissan SUV," he said. ... Click here to read the full piece on FoxNews.com. ### 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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