In Case You Missed It: UANI's World Wide Web Campaign Covered by The New York Times

   

In Case You Missed It: UANI's World Wide Web Campaign Covered by The New York Times "[UANI Announced] a New Effort to Force the Authorities who Assign International Internet Addresses to Block Sanctioned Iranian Entities and Persons from Access to the Web" Negotiators Meet in Bid to Revive Iran Talks By Rick Gladstone The New York Times September 19, 2012 The top nuclear negotiators for Iran and the big powers met face to face for the first time in nearly three months on Tuesday, part of an effort to revive the stalled talks over Iran's disputed uranium enrichment activities as new military tensions roil the Middle East. ... In the United States, United Against Nuclear Iran, an advocacy group that helped pressure a global banking communications network to expel sanctioned Iranian banks, said it had undertaken a new effort to force the authorities who assign international Internet addresses to block sanctioned Iranian entities and persons from access to the Web. In letters sent to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, known as ICANN, based in Los Angeles, and the Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre, known as RIPE NCC, based in Amsterdam, the advocacy group's president, Mark D. Wallace, said they may be in violation of Iran sanctions and that by disconnecting Internet access, "the dictatorial regime of Iran would be severely impeded in pursuing its illegal and amoral activities." ICANN officials did not respond to requests for comment. RIPE NCC, in a statement posted on its Web site, said that it did not believe it had violated sanctions "but we will investigate in cases where new information is provided to us and we will ensure that changing circumstances do not place the RIPE NCC in violation of sanctions." Click here to read the full article. Click here to learn more about UANI's World Wide Web Campaign. Click here to read UANI's full letter to ICANN.                                  Click here to read UANI's full letter to RIPE.   ###                                                                         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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