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General McMaster's Iran Divestment Comments Are Stark
Warning To Businesses
"You
Might As Well Cut the [IRGC] a Check and Say, 'Please Use This to
Commit More Murder across the Middle East'"
(New York, NY) - United Against
Nuclear Iran (UANI) CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace today released
the following statement regarding National Security Advisor Lt. Gen.
H.R. McMaster's recent appeal to North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO) allies to cut off funding to terrorist entities in Iran, such
as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), by avoiding business
with the rogue regime:
"We fully support General H.R.
McMaster's call for businesses to comprehend the risks of engaging
with Iran," Wallace said. "Beyond the serious legal,
political, financial and reputational risks, no business can be
assured that by doing business with Iran, they are not engaging with
the IRGC, which was recently sanctioned by the Trump Administration
for its support of terrorist activities. With the IRGC immeasurably
engaged in Iran's economy, businesses that choose to enter Iran run
the risk of supporting an organization that actively finances and
carries out terrorist activity in the Middle East and across the
globe. It's well past time that the U.S. government designates the
Qods Force - the IRGC's foreign expeditionary arm - as a foreign
terrorist organization (FTO). Such a step will provide Washington
with additional leverage as international firms would be subject to
additional criminal penalties, including providing material support
to the Qods Force," added Wallace.
Since the implementation of the Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action in 2015, UANI has urged businesses in
the U.S. and around the globe not to enter the Iranian market. As
part of this effort, UANI recently unveiled its Iran
Risk Snapshot, a set of 27 financial, legal and sociopolitical
indices from leading ratings organizations that analyze the risks of
doing business with the regime in Tehran. Unsurprisingly, among these
indices, Iran consistently ranks at or near the bottom.
Speaking to NATO allies in Munich,
National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster said, "When you
invest in Iran, you're investing in the IRGC. You might as well cut
the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a check and say, 'Please use
this to commit more murder across the Middle East.' ... And when we
look at the biggest trading partners with Iran, we of course see
Russia, we see China. But we also see Japan, South Korea and Germany.
It's time to focus business intelligence efforts to figure out who we
are really doing business with, and cut off funding." (Defense
News, 2/18/18)
For more information, or to speak
with UANI leadership, please contact: press@uani.com.
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