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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 31, 2012
Phone: (212) 554-3296
UANI Urges Passage of Iran Sanctions Legislation, Calls for Full Economic Blockade on Iranian Regime
We applaud House and Senate negotiators for agreeing to important Iran sanctions legislation, and call for its Swift passage into law. The legislation contains important provisions related to Iran's energy sector and basic financial activities long advocated by UANI, including obligating companies that avail themselves of U.S. stock markets to disclose Iran-related business to the SEC, and impeding the repatriation of oil sales to Iran.
Still, while this legislation will further isolate the Iranian regime, UANI has long called for much more in the form of a full economic blockade of the regime. Completely isolating the regime is the best hope to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapons capability and avoid military action. Unfortunately, this legislation falls short of that goal. To impose the most robust sanctions in history on the Iranian regime, UANI will initiate a campaign calling on all members of Congress to sign a pledge in support of a full economic blockade of Iran.
We express our gratitude to the tireless staffs of Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Senator Johnson's offices for all of the important work that they did on this legislation.
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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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