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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 6, 2013
Phone: (212) 554-3296
UANI Issues Statement Regarding South Korean President Park Geun-Hye's Visit to the U.S.
South Korea can, and should, be doing much more to pressure and isolate Iran. South Korea continues to engage in oil trade with Iran, and South Korean companies like LG, Posco, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Hyundai Merchant Marine, Hanjin, and Daelim persist in doing lucrative and dangerous business in Iran. This is unacceptable at a time when the international community is working to isolate the Iranian regime in response to its illicit nuclear program, support for terrorism, and human rights abuses.
We call on President Obama and U.S. lawmakers to impress upon President Park the urgent need for an end to South Korean business activity in Iran. Commitments by the South Korea government to isolate the Iranian regime must be reinforced by responsible and meaningful action by South Korean industry. President Obama should also make clear to President Park that South Korea must continue to drastically decrease its imports of Iranian oil by the end of 2013.
As a responsible member of the international community, South Korea must do more to address the threat to international peace and stability posed by the Iranian regime.
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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.
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