 |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 10, 2013
Phone: (212) 554-3296
UANI Announces Billboard Near Sasol's Louisiana Offices
Billboard: "SASOL MUST CHOOSE: LOUISIANA OR IRAN'S TERRORIST REGIME."
[Click here to view UANI's Sasol billboard in Lake Charles, Louisiana.]
New York, NY - On Wednesday, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) continued its Sasol campaign, by announcing the launch of a UANI billboard now up near Sasol's Louisiana offices.
The billboard reads: "BEFORE YOU BUILD HERE, STOP BUILDING IN IRAN. SASOL MUST CHOOSE: LOUISIANA OR IRAN'S TERRORIST REGIME. LEARN MORE @ UANI.COM"
The billboard is located on I-10, near Enterprise Boulevard, in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Sasol's Lake Charles Chemical Plant is located nearby, at 2201 Old Spanish Trail, in Westlake.
On February 2, 2013, the Shreveport Times published a UANI Op-Ed highlighting Sasol's business with the Iranian regime, and Sasol's failure to end that business. Sasol, a South African energy giant, has been approved by the state of Lousiana to construct a multi-billion dollar gas-to-liquids plant that will tap the Haynesville Shale gas formation.
At the same time, Sasol maintains an active presence in Iran's energy sector, partnering with a sanctioned Iranian entity to operate two polyethylene plants. Sasol announced in October 2011 its intention to divest from Iran, but has failed to follow through on that commitment.
Said UANI CEO, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace:
Sasol must make a choice: exit Iran, or exit Louisiana. Sasol has told UANI it will only leave Iran at a time that it can extract maximum value. This is unacceptable, and not what the American people expect. We call on concerned Americans to contact Sasol, and demand that it end its business in Iran.
Iran is controlled by a brutal regime responsible for killing American troops and pursuing a nuclear weapon. No responsible company should be doing business with such a regime, particularly while working in the U.S.
Click here to view a graphic of UANI's Sasol billboard.
Click here to view a live picture of the billboard.
Click here to read UANI's Shreveport Times Op-Ed, "Make La. Iran-free energy zone."
Click here to read UANI's January 3 letter to Sasol.
Click here to read UANI's December 19 letter to Sasol.
Click here to send a message to Sasol.
###
|
|
|
|
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. |
|
|
|
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment