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FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
FEBRUARY 17, 2017
UANI Warns Munich Security Conference Attendees about
Iran's Aggressive, Duplicitous Behavior in Full-Page Wall Street
Journal Message
New
York, NY - Leaders of United Against
Nuclear Iran (UANI) and global policymakers are warning attendees
to the 53rd Munich Security Conference (MSC) about the Iranian
regime's pattern of aggressive and duplicitous behavior in a
full-page open
letter that appears on February 17 in the Wall Street Journal Europe.
Signatories include Governor
Bill Richardson, former governor of New Mexico, U.S.
secretary of energy, and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; Tamir Pardo,
former director of the Mossad, the national intelligence agency of
Israel; Radek
Sikorski, former foreign minister of Poland; Dr. August Hanning,
former director of the Federal Intelligence Service of Germany; Michael Morell,
former acting director and deputy director of the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency; and former U.S. Senators Norm Coleman (R-MN)
and Mark Kirk
(R-IL), among others.
The MSC, to be held February 17-19, brings together experts from
around the world to debate security policy and the future of the
transatlantic alliance. UANI's message reminds MSC participants that
while Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, who is scheduled to speak
at the conference, claims the regime will not use its weapons to
instigate war, Tehran remains the world's leading state sponsor of
terrorism and props up violent dictators like Syria's Bashar
al-Assad. In addition, Iran continues to test ballistic missiles in
defiance of United Nations Resolution 2231.
"The Munich Security Conference helps shape global security
policy; as such, policymakers attending this year's conference must
acknowledge the threat a hostile Iran poses to the region and the
world," said UANI
CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, former U.S. Ambassador to the United
Nations for Management and Reform. "Iran remains
the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism and its most recent
aggressions challenge fly in the face of future international
security. The leaders at the MSC must come together and demand that
Tehran drastically change its threatening behavior."
"While Foreign Minister Zarif claims that the regime's behavior
has changed, its actions tell a different story," said UANI Chairman and former U.S.
Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, who was honored by the
MSC in 2012 with the Ewald
von Kleist Award for his contributions to global peace and
conflict resolution. "Tehran continues to support notorious
terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah and is bankrolling
Bashar al-Assad, who has killed thousands of innocent Syrians. World
leaders at the Munich Security Conference must call on Iran to
reverse this violent pattern before rewarding it with lucrative
business opportunities."
Led by a group of former leading diplomats and lawmakers, UANI is in
the midst of a global education campaign focused on the corporate
risks of doing business with Iran, warning hundreds of international
companies that are contemplating Iran as a new investment
opportunity. As part of its campaign to highlight the dangers of business
with the Iranian regime, UANI has identified a matrix
of 10 key risk categories businesses and
sovereign states face should they pursue deals with Tehran.
For more information, or to speak with UANI leadership, please
contact: press@uani.com.
About
UANI
UANI is an independent, not-for-profit, non-partisan, advocacy
group founded in 2008 by Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, Ambassador
Richard Holbrooke, former CIA Director Jim Woolsey, and Middle East
Expert Ambassador Dennis Ross, that seeks to heighten awareness of
the danger the Iranian regime poses to the world.
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