UANI Launches Iranian Regime Election Repression Toolkit

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 23, 2013  Contact: Nathan Carleton, press@uani.com  Phone: (212) 554-3296   UANI Launches Iranian Regime Election Repression Toolkit Site Identifies Companies Whose Products are Used for Political Oppression in Iran  New York, NY - On Thursday, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) unveiled its Iranian Regime Election Repression Toolkit. The Election Repression Toolkit highlights the Iranian regime's use of Western and Asian technology and equipment to stifle political dissent and deny voters basic rights of free expression and protest. Interested parties can visit UANI.com/TOOLKIT to see which corporations' technology and products are being misused by the regime for political oppression, and contact those companies' executives. During the fraudulent 2009 Iranian presidential elections, the regime used foreign technology and equipment from corporations such as MTN, Nokia Siemens Networks, Ericsson, Huawei, Honda, and Nissan to restrict and monitor internet and cellphone communication, and to physically terrorize and kill civilians. This year, the regime is even more aggressively stifling dissent, and is again making use of technology and equipment from international corporations that continue to irresponsibly do business in Iran. Said UANI CEO, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace: It is clear that this year's Iranian presidential election will be a fraudulent and undemocratic process. The regime is methodically working to prevent a repeat of the events of 2009 by blocking public dissent, and engineering a predetermined outcome by permitting only regime-approved loyalist candidates to stand for election. In Iran, telecommunications equipment, motorbikes, and construction cranes are misused by the regime to restrict and monitor internet and cellular communications, terrorize and intimidate civilians, and hang dissidents. Foreign firms providing such equipment must immediately end their Iran business and not support the regime's ruthless human rights abuses. Click here to visit UANI's Iranian Regime Election Repression Toolkit. ###  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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