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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 18, 2012
Phone: (212) 554-3296
UANI Applauds State of Maryland for Plans to Bar International Firms Active in Iran from State Contracts
In April, Maryland unanimously passed legislation based on UANI model legislation barring companies active in Iran from doing business with the state. The legislation was signed into law the next month.
As the Baltimore Sun noted today: "United Against Nuclear Iran has criticized Hyundai Heavy Industries [one of the 22 companies on the list] for its dealings with Iran." UANI did the same for fellow South Korean industrial conglomerate Daelim, which Maryland has also identified will be subject to the ban.
Said UANI CEO, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace:
We applaud the State of Maryland for its aggressive plans to enforce its Iran debarment law. No business that is active in Iran should be receiving U.S. tax dollars, and Maryland, by enforcing the law, will force these companies to choose between the Iranian regime and Maryland taxpayers.
Hyundai Heavy Industries and Daelim continue to try to have it both ways when it comes to its business. We hope that Maryland's actions will help push Hyundai Heavy Industries and Daelim to finally make the responsible decision, and stop doing business in Iran.
As the Financial Times reported, California's debarment law, the 2010 Iran Contracting Act, succeeded in pressuring multinational corporations to end their business in Iran. The State of California publishes a list of companies prohibited from doing business with California due to their work in Iran.
Click here to view UANI's State Certification map.
Click here to visit UANI's model legislation home page.
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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.
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