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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 13, 2013
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UANI Applauds AB Volvo for Pulling Out of Iran
Automaker Ends Business in Iran Following UANI's Campaign
In December, UANI publicly called on Volvo to pull out of Iran, highlighting its sales there and its subsidiaries' partnerships with the Iranian regime-controlled entity Saipa Diesel. UANI presented Volvo with photographic evidence of its trucks being used by the Iranian regime to transport missiles.
This month, in discussions with UANI, Volvo stated that it "[took] the decision in January 2013 to stop all business with companies [in] Iran."
UANI applauds Volvo's decision, and will list it as having withdrawn from Iran. Volvo is the seventh prominent automaker to pull out of Iran within the past year, joining Hyundai, Fiat, Porsche, Lamborghini, and others.
Said UANI CEO, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace:
We applaud AB Volvo for pulling out of Iran. The Iranian regime relies on the automotive sector for revenue, and to support its military operations. Volvo joins a growing list of responsible automakers that have decided that the moral and fiduciary risks of doing business in Iran are too great. We call on the automakers still active in Iran to take the same step of immediately ending their Iran business, in order to economically isolate the Iranian regime.
AB Volvo is a separate entity from the Volvo Car Corporation, which has certified that it does not do business in Iran.
Click here to read UANI's December 7, 2012 letter to AB Volvo.
Click here to visit UANI's "Auto Campaign" page.
Click here to read UANI's "DRIVE Act" legislation.
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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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- 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;
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- 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;
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- Promote efforts that focus on vigorous national and international, social, economic, political and diplomatic measures.
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