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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 24, 2012
Phone: (212) 554-3296
UANI Applauds Hispasat for Ending Broadcast of Iranian Regime Programming
New York, NY - On Monday, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) applauded Spain's Hispasat for ending its broadcasting of Iranian regime programming. Specifically, Hispasat has ordered the removal of Iranian channels Press TV and Hispan TV.
Hispasat's decision follows UANI's November 20 public call for Hispasat and its CEO, Carlos Espinós Gómez, to stop making "unreasonable justifications for its business in Iran and immediately stop broadcasting Iranian regime programming."
UANI originally sent Gómez a letter on November 9 calling on Hispasat to "cease the broadcast of all Iranian regime transmissions via the Hispasat 1C satellite, including that of the I slamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) and its affiliates such as Press TV."
Said UANI CEO, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace:
We applaud Hispasat for ending its broadcast of Iranian regime programming. Any network or provider committed to free speech must end its relationships with the Iranian regime given the regime's libelous programming that broadcasts hate speech against religious minorities, forced confessions of peaceful dissidents and civil society activists, and show trials of political prisoners.
Hispasat joins other providers such as Asiasat, Telesat, Arqiva, and Eutelsat in taking the responsible action on this issue. We call on all media entities to stop broadcasting IRIB programming and other regime propaganda.
Click here to view UANI's November 9 letter to Hispasat.
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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.
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