UANI Issues Statement Regarding Sasol's Response to Louisiana Billboard

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 12, 2013 Contact: Nathan Carleton, press@uani.com  Phone: (212) 554-3296   UANI Issues Statement Regarding Sasol's Response to Louisiana Billboard UANI's Sasol Billboard Featured on KPLC-NBC's "7News at Six" in Lake Charles, LA [Click here to watch KPLC-NBC's report about UANI's Sasol billboard] New York, NY - United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) CEO, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, issued a statement today regarding South African energy giant Sasol's response to UANI's Sasol billboard. The billboard went up this week near Sasol's Louisiana offices and was reported as the lead story on yesterday's KPLC-NBC "7News at Six" in Lake Charles. UANI's billboard reads: "BEFORE YOU BUILD HERE, STOP BUILDING IN IRAN. SASOL MUST CHOOSE: LOUISIANA OR IRAN'S TERRORIST REGIME. LEARN MORE @ UANI.COM" Said UANI CEO, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace: Once again, Sasol has acknowledged that it continues to do business in Iran. Sasol has a responsibility to leave Iran, before it starts its multi-billion dollar Louisiana energy project and reaps the benefits of working in the U.S. Sasol has been saying it will leave Iran since 2011, but has yet to do so. Once Sasol matches its words with action, we will gladly take down the Lake Charles billboard and list Sasol as withdrawn from Iran. UANI's Sasol billboard is located along I-10, near Enterprise Boulevard, in Lake Charles, near Sasol's Lake Charles Chemical Plant. 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. 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. Since January, UANI has been publicly calling on Sasol to pull out of Iran. Click here to watch KPLC's report about UANI's Sasol billboard. Click here to view a graphic of the billboard. Click here to view a live picture of the billboard. Click here to read Ambassador Wallace's Shreveport Times Op-Ed, "Make La. Iran-free energy zone." Click here to read the full text of 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.

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