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UANI
Iran Risk Summit Documents Growing Iranian Military Threat, Business
Risks One Year After JCPOA
Summit Brings
Together Diverse Group of Major American, European, and Middle
Eastern Stakeholders
New York, NY
- The United Against Nuclear
Iran (UANI) Iran Risk Summit, held on September 19 in New
York, successfully brought together a diverse group of major
American, European, and Middle Eastern leaders to discuss the growing
military and economic threats posed by the Iranian regime one year
after the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear
agreement took effect.
Leading current and former officials who participated
in the Summit included Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY), the United Arab Emirates'
Ambassador to the United States Yousef Al Otaiba, Co-Head of the
Zionist Union Party and former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni,
and former President of the United Nations General Assembly and
Bahraini Ambassador to France Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa.
UANI Advisory Board Members who participated in the
Summit included former Governor of New Mexico, Secretary of Energy,
and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson; former
Director of the Federal Intelligence Service of Germany Dr. August
Hanning; former Polish Foreign and Defense Minister Radosław
Sikorski; President Obama's former White House Coordinator for Arms
Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction Dr. Gary Samore; and Council
on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Dr. Ray Takeyh. UANI Chairman and
former U.S. Senator Joseph I. Lieberman and UANI CEO Ambassador Mark
Wallace moderated panels throughout the day.
- Click
here
for a video of Ambassador Otaiba's session focusing on the
geopolitical impact of the JCPOA.
- Click
here
for a video of the panel on risks to businesses in the Iranian
economy featuring Dr. August Hanning; Governor Bill Richardson;
and Dr. Matthew Levitt of the Washington Institute for Near East
Policy.
- Click
here
for a video of Congressman Engel's keynote address.
- Click
here
for a video of former UANI President Dr. Gary Samore's
discussion on the future of the JCPOA.
- Click
here
for a video of the panel focusing on proxy wars in the Middle
East, featuring UANI Advisory Board Member and former Senior
Advisor on Iran to the U.S. Department of State Dr. Ray Takeyh;
Tony Badran of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies; and
Mohammed Alyahya of the Gulf Research Center and the Atlantic
Council.
- Click
here
for a video of the panel focusing on the regional impact of the
JCPOA, featuring MK Tzipi Livni; Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa;
and Radosław Sikorski.
UANI's campaign to hold the Iranian
regime accountable for its "Death to American" slogan
during the course of the UN General Assembly also drew the attention
of Iranian officials. UANI's kiosk, taxi, and digital ads underlined
that "Death to America" is not just empty rhetoric, but in
practice means Death to Americans. As the world's leading state
sponsor of terrorism, the Iranian regime is responsible for the
deaths of more than 1,000 American soldiers and civilians--not to
mention scores of others worldwide.
Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York on
September 23, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
referenced UANI's ad campaign and said, "And
you see all my pictures on the billboards and taxis saying 'death to
America means death to Americans,' and I never said that in my
life." The ads, in fact, did not claim that Zarif had spoken
those exact words. The fact remains, however that neither Foreign
Minister Zarif nor President Rouhani renounce the regime's hateful
and incendiary "Death to America" slogan.
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