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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 16, 2013
Phone: (212) 554-3296
UANI Issues Statement in Response to MAN SE
German Firm is Directly Involved in Building Tankers for Iranian Regime
MAN must immediately and completely end its Iran business activities, particularly those related to the construction of new Iranian tankers. MAN's claim that its current work with the Iranian regime technically complies with EU sanctions is weak and insufficient. Moreover, MAN's Iran business is clearly irresponsible, unethical, and in direct contravention of international efforts to isolate the Iranian regime and degrade its capacity to transport crude oil.
MAN's attempt to justify its Iran business through legal parsing is unacceptable. The U.S. and EU are attempting to economically isolate Iran, particularly by hampering its shipping industry, and companies such as MAN that continue to aid the regime are significantly interfering with those efforts. Businesses can no longer defy the efforts of governments and private entities to isolate Iran without facing serious reputational and financial consequences. MAN must immediately clarify its involvement in the construction of new vessels for the Iranian regime.
UANI's call for MAN to end its business in Iran was reported by the German newspaper Die Welt, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, and Trend.az. As Die Welt reported: "After researching, UANI said MAN should end the construction of at least five other ships for the state shipping company IRISL, which is also on the sanctions list. Today, IRISL has several private limited companies in Hamburg. MAN's Iranian partner in this business is said to be the Persian Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation, a company that is controlled by the regime."
UANI's "Germany Campaign" highlights the extensive Iran business activities of German businesses, firms and entities. German businesses are bolstering the Iranian economy and expanding Iranian industrial capacity at a time when the international community is working to economically isolate the Iranian regime.
Click here to read an English translation of the Die Welt story, "MAN Comes Under Pressure Because of Iran Business."
Click here to read UANI's January 7 letter to MAN.
Click here to send a message to MAN.
Click here to learn more about UANI's Shipping Campaign.
Click here to learn more about UANI's Germany Campaign.
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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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