In Case You Missed It: UANI Profiled on Israel's Channel 10 News

In Case You Missed It: UANI Profiled on Israel's Channel 10 News Channel 10 News May 6, 2012 Watch Video at: http://youtu.be/1nz57Aj-p0Q United Against Nuclear Iran lobby group does everything it can to give the Iranian President a hard time, and stop Teheran's nuclear program. Now they are pushing for a legislation initiative that will ban doing business with vessels entering Iranian sea ports and working to stop car sales in the Islamic Republic. "The world is uniting to isolate Ahmadinejad and his thugs", says the group's chairman to Channel 10 news. Every year, Ahmadinejad arrives in New York fearing he will not have a place to stay. These worries are afflicted by a group called UANI - United Against Nuclear Iran. Mark Wallace, the group's chairman: "It's a little message, that the world is coming to isolate him and his thugs." Wallace, an attorney, held a senior post in the Bush administration and helped the former president with the Florida election battle in 2000. In his first interview with the Israeli media, the man who's been leading UANI for the last 4 year reveals the arsenal of sanctions planned for Iran. The next step, where UANI is concerned, is stopping vessels entering Iran's ports.   "We're proposed a law, that if a vessel embarks or disembarks from an Iranian port, that it will be barred from making a port of call, or port of entry, or doing business in an American port, and hopefully in a European port," Wallace says. "That effectively sinks that vessel's value. That vessel owner will make a decision not to do business in Iran." One of the big successes of this group and its kind is cutting off Iran from the international money clearing system SWIFT. The next targets are international auto-makers. Three big car manufacturers have stopped selling new vehicles in the Islamic Republic. "The Persian automobile sector is the 13th largest in the world," says Wallace. "It's the fastest growing portion of the Iranian economy. And the Persian automotive sector is replete with control by the IRGC, so we have to do our best to cut off the international automotive sector from doing business with Iran ... Hyundai announced that it was ending its business in Iran, Porsche as well. " In between the lines, Wallace is critical of the Obama administration, which--in his opinion--doesn't do enough to stop Iran. "Every administration from 1978 forward could do more," he says. "This President has taken certain steps and we've -- applauded the steps that he's taken, and we've called for far more action than has currently been taken." "There should be no Iranian bank that is allowed to transact international business. You can cut off the ability to insure or reinsure products and services for are major infrastructure projects: the shipping. If you want to do business, sell goods or services to the United States, you have to certify that you don't do business in Iran." Wallace is appalled by the possibility of an Israeli military attack aimed at stopping Iran's nuclear program. "[Instead of unilateral action], hopefully the community of nations will all join together and say: 'A nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable, too dangerous, and will spark a Middle East nuclear arms race.' And then all those countries will come together and there will be a strong coalition, God forbid, in a military action against Iran." Click here to view the package on Channel 10's website.  ### 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.