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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 25, 2012
Phone: (212) 247-2700, ext. 1121
UANI Calls for Full Economic Blockade Following President Obama's Speech to the UN General Assembly
New York, NY - United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) CEO, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, issued the following statement after President Obama's address to the UN General Assembly:
We applaud President Obama for pledging to do whatever it takes to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Now, it is imperative that the U.S. use all of its leverage to economically isolate the Iranian regime, in addition to requisite diplomacy, special operations, and military planning.
The Obama administration must adopt the most robust sanctions policy in history: an economic blockade of Iran. Countries and business around the world must be forced to choose between doing business with the United States or doing business with Iran.
The time for nipping at the corners has passed; the U.S. must now act decisively. Legislation imposing such an embargo should be modeled on the following UANI proposal: any business, firm, or entity that does work in Iran shall be barred from receiving U.S. government contracts, accessing U.S. capital markets, entering into commercial partnerships with U.S. entities, or otherwise doing business in the U.S. or with U.S. entities.
At the point that any entity has to choose between doing business in the U.S. or in Iran, it will make the right decision, and in turn isolate the regime.
UANI continues to be headquartered at the Warwick Hotel today, and will demonstrate with signs, activities, flyers, and protests. UANI's campaign has been covered by CNN, the Associated Press, Reuters, The Christian Science Monitor, New York Daily News, PIX 11 News, Fox 5 News, CBS 880 Radio, Agence France Presse, 1010 WINS Radio, and the New York Post (here, here, here), as well as by local television stations in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Pennsylvania.
Click here, here, and here to view photos of UANI's Monday protest.
Click here to view UANI's truck billboard live in Manhattan.
Click here to view the graphic on UANI's truck.
Click here to send a message to the Warwick.
Click here to learn more about UANI's Warwick campaign.
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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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