UANI Applauds Australia's WorleyParsons for Ending Business in Iran and Signing UANI's Iran Business Declaration

   

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 12, 2012 Contact: Nathan Carleton, press@uani.com  Phone: (212) 554-3296   UANI Applauds Australia's WorleyParsons for Ending Business in Iran and Signing UANI's Iran Business Declaration   New York, NY - On Wednesday, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) applauded the Australian mining and energy services company WorleyParsons for ending its business in Iran. WorleyParsons actively did business in Iran's oil and natural gas sector, yet in recent discussions with UANI, WorleyParsons stated that it has now discontinued all of its services in Iran and will refrain from any new ones. WorleyParsons has signed UANI's Iran Business Declaration, confirming that neither it nor any affiliate: "Is or is currently planning on engaging in any business or in providing any goods or services in Iran or with Iranian-based business anywhere ..." "Is or will be a party to any agreement with any Iranian business or other entity or Iranian governmental author, or the owner of an equity interest in, any Iranian entity." "Owns or operates any plant, property, equipment, or other assets located in Iran." UANI accepts WorleyParsons' pledge, and will list it as withdrawn on the Iran Business Registry. Said UANI CEO, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace: We applaud WorleyParsons for ending its business in Iran, and for signing UANI's Iran Business Declaration. WorleyParsons has sent the Iranian regime a message, that companies around the world will not continue to do business with a country that is pursuing an illegal nuclear weapons program, sponsoring terrorists, and brutalizing its own people. We call on all businesses to pull out of Iran, and for the U.S., EU, and others to impose a full economic blockade on the Iranian regime. WorleyParsons is the most recent company to sign UANI's Iran Business Declaration. In 2009, General Electric partnered with UANI to become the first signatory to the Iran Business Declaration. The IBD affirms that a company does not and will not conduct business in Iran. Click here to view UANI's Iran Business Registry. ###                                                                         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.