UANI Applauds House Foreign Affairs Committee for "Nuclear Iran Prevention Act," Urges Passage

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 24, 2013  Contact: Nathan Carleton, press@uani.com  Phone: (212) 554-3296   UANI Applauds House Foreign Affairs Committee for "Nuclear Iran Prevention Act," Urges Passage New York, NY - United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) CEO, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, issued the following statement today regarding the Nuclear Iran Prevention Act (H.R. 850), which was passed by the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee this week: We applaud Committee Chairman Ed Royce and Ranking Member Eliot Engel for introducing this legislation, and strongly urge Congress to pass it into law. If enacted, the act would further pressure the Iranian regime by blacklisting more sectors of the Iranian economy, strengthening shipping sanctions, and taking even more Iranian crude off the market. We call on U.S. lawmakers to continue to pursue stronger and more comprehensive sanctions against Iran. Now is the time for a complete economic blockade of the Iranian regime, with the exception of food and humanitarian aid. The U.S. and the international community must use all available leverage to economically pressure Iran, and force the regime to decide between a nuclear weapon or a functioning economy. UANI has long called for a full economic blockade on the Iranian regime. In May 2012 testimony to the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ambassador Wallace stated that: "The time for half-measures and exceptions is over. We must commit ourselves to imposing a complete economic blockade." Click here to view UANI model legislation: The Economic Blockade of Iran Act. ###  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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