In Case You Missed It: "Pressure by UANI and others Caused Porsche to Close its Tehran Showroom"

   

In Case You Missed It: "Pressure by UANI and others Caused Porsche to Close its Tehran Showroom" UANI CEO, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, Featured on Fox News Special About Luxury Good in Iran "Persian Bling" Fox News's "Fox Files" August 3, 2012 AMY KELLOG, FOX NEWS: Exotic cars, lavish apartments, and sleek shopping complexes. Fox Files cameras captured these images inside the Islamic Republic of Iran. ... MARK D. WALLACE, UNITED AGAINST NUCLEAR IRAN: What started ostensibly as a religious movement toppling the Shah in 1978 has evolved into a Mafia-like organization that imposes business on all elements of Iranian society. KELLOG: Mark Wallace is a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for Management and Reform. He is currently CEO of United Against Nuclear Iran. WALLACE: What you have seen since the revolution is the mullahs and the religious elites infiltrating that economy. ... Rafsanjani has been a dominant political and religious leader in Iran. ... KELLOG: This system is kept in place by the iron fist of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps-- IRGC--the so called protectors of the Iranian regime. WALLACE: The IRGC and the Iranian elites have for many years purchased and sought the finest of western goods. And unfortunately over the years, because of petro dollars, the elites have had the ability to purchase these goods. KELLOG: Pressure by UANI and others caused Porsche to close its Tehran showroom. Currently, Fiat is under pressure to stop doing business with the Islamic Republic. In May, Fiat announced it was suspending sales there. ... WALLACE: ... there still is illicit trade in Iran, and loopholes.... there have been reports that Iran is suffering from rampant inflation. ... So I think you are seeing a great people, an industrious and hard working people, who are fed up with the cronyism and the corruption of a theocratic dictatorship. Click here to watch the full piece. ###                                                                        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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