UANI Applauds U.S. Sanctions on Greek Shipper Dimitris Cambis

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 14, 2013 Contact: Nathan Carleton, press@uani.com  Phone: (212) 554-3296 UANI Applauds U.S. Sanctions on Greek Shipper Dimitris Cambis New York, NY - United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) CEO, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, issued the following statement today regarding new U.S. sanctions imposed on Greek shipper Dimitris Cambis and others: We applaud the Obama administration for enforcing sanctions on Greek national Dimitris Cambis, due to his enabling of Iran's illegal oil exports. Mr. Cambis has been engaged in international criminal activities and has been directly aiding the Iranian regime in its fraudulent scheme to subvert sanctions. He must be punished for his inappropriate actions. Mr. Cambis used a network of front companies, including Impire Shipping, Libra Shipping, and UAE-based Sambouk Shipping, to carry out illegal ship-to-ship transfers of Iranian oil on behalf of the regime. Moreover, UANI understands that Mr. Cambis used the Greek-based investment fund, Athene Consulting House, to raise and organize funds for the scheme. We call on the U.S. Government to sanction these additional entities for acting on behalf of the Iranian regime. Last month, UANI revealed the results of an investigation into the Iranian regime's actions to evade international oil sanctions. All thirteen of the world's major shipping services have stopped certifying Iranian vessels following UANI's Shipping Campaign, including Bureau Veritas, Germanischer Lloyd, the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, Korean Register of Shipping, China Classification Society, and ClassNK. UANI has also announced that Barbados, Hong Kong, Moldova and Mongolia have stopped their reflagging of Iranian vessels. Click here to learn more about UANI's Shipping Campaign. ###  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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