UANI Joins the "Responsibility to Prevent" Coalition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 22, 2010 Contact: Kimmie Lipscomb, press@uani.com Phone: (212) 554-3296 UANI Joins the "Responsibility to Prevent" Coalition New York, NY - United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) today joined the "Responsibility to Prevent" Coalition, and signed the international petition entitled "The Danger of a Nuclear, Genocidal and Rights-Violating Iran: The Responsibility to Prevent Petition." The petition is endorsed by international law scholars, human rights defenders, experts in genocide, and a distinguished group of Iranian scholars, and the objective of the coalition and the petition is to hold Ahmadinejad's Iran to account for its brutal and illegal actions. UANI applauds the efforts and initiative of these leaders. UANI President Ambassador Mark D. Wallace has signed the petition, and UANI has joined the Coalition as a supporting NGO. Referring to the coalition, UANI President, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace said: "Over a year has passed since the fraudulent elections of June 12, 2009, and despite the cries for a change in leadership, the Iranian regime continues to violate brutally the human rights of its own people, reject its obligations to the U.N. and persist in developing illegal nuclear weapons. If we have learned anything in the past year since the cries of the Iranian people were first heard, it is that we must prevent Iran from continuing its unbridled violation of human rights and its unlawful pursuit of a nuclear weapon." Click here to read the petition. # # # 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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