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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 21, 2012
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UANI Applauds China Classification Society for Ending Its Certification of Iranian Vessels
All 13 International Classification Societies have Now Stopped Services
New York, NY - Today, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) applauded the China Classification Society (CCS) for ending its certification of Iranian vessels, a development covered today by Reuters. CCS is the 13th and final major international classification society to stop certifying vessels from Iran.
On October 3, UANI publicly called on CCS to end its certification services and stop "directly facilitating the ability of the Iranian regime to circumvent multilateral sanctions."
UANI and CCS have been in discussions since that time. In those discussions, CCS stated that it has stopped certifying Iranian vessels, and that as of now "there is not any ship flying Iranian flag or owned by Iranian shipowner in our fleet, and we have not conducted any statutory survey for any Iranian ship."
UANI applauds this decision and will list CCS as having ended its certifying of Iranian vessels.
Said UANI CEO, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace:
We applaud CCS for this decision and refusing the certification of Iranian vessels. All of the world's major shipping certifiers have now ended their certification of Iranian vessels. Iranian vessels will be prohibited from entry in many of the world's ports.
Yet more must be done. We call for even tougher sanctions: any vessel that docks in Iran or transports Iranian cargo should be barred from accessing ports in the U.S., EU, or elsewhere.
UANI has highlighted the shipping industry as an area where the international community can further pressure Iran. In a March 17 Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, six UANI board members wrote that "the world must deny Iran's access to international shipping, a move that would severely affect the regime given its dependence on global trade and seaborne crude oil exports."
Click here to read today's Reuters report, "China ship firm ends Iran work as Tehran feels more heat."
Click here to read UANI's October letter to CCS.
Click here to read UANI's Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, "Total Sanctions Might Stop Iran."
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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.
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.
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