20 September 2010
By Kourosh
Ziabari
Those who
regularly follow the developments of Iran might have
come across to the website of "United Against Nuclear
Iran", a "non-partisan, non-profit
advocacy
organization" that seeks to "prevent Iran from
fulfilling its ambition to become a regional
super-power possessing
nuclear weapons"
UANI has
compiled an elaborate list of the foreign companies
and firms which do business with Iran and calls on its
readers and visitors to send condemnatory letters and
complaints to these companies so as to persuade them
to withdraw their capitals and resources from Iran and
stop doing business with a country which the United
States and its European allies consider to be an
emerging nuclear threat in the
Middle East.
Interestingly, UANI has listed each and every foreign
company which is active in Iran, from the food
production companies to internet service providers,
medicine manufacturers, industrial conglomerates,
news
agencies, transportation infrastructure
providers and private consortiums, and its objective
is to convince these companies to put an end to their
activities in Iran.
UANI runs a
divestment campaign which contains pressuring foreign
corporations to stop conducting business with Iran. So
far, it has succeeded in pulling out
General
Electric, Caterpillar and Ingersoll Rand from
Iran's market.
UANI's
advisory board consists of a number of U.S. government
insiders and big shots who have close ties with the
U.S. statesmen including R. James Woolsey, the former
head of CIA,
Fouad
Ajami, a John Hopkins University professor and
a close associate of the
Council
on Foreign Relations, Henry D. Sokolski, the
former Deputy for Nonproliferation Policy in the
Office of the Secretary of Defense and
Gary Milhollin, the director of the Wisconsin
Project on
Nuclear
Arms Control and the publisher of "Iran Watch"
website which is dedicated to promoting financial
sanctions against Iran.
The
activities of UANI, however, are not limited to
lobbying for the intensification of
sanctions against Iran. Each year and on the
advent of UN General Assembly, UANI runs an
advertorial campaign to prevent New York hotels from
accommodating Iranian President and his colleagues and
dissuade the city's convention centers from hosting
events in which the Iranian officials are slated to
deliver a speech.
By
publishing propagandistic reports and articles on the
purported hazard of Iran's nuclear activities, UANI
also functions as a mouthpiece which is exclusively
dedicated to fear-mongering and spreading falsehood
about Iran.
UANI's
President is Mark Wallace, the former
United States Ambassador to the United Nations
and a close companion of ex-President
George
W. Bush. Wallace had played a key role in the
Florida
election recount of 2000 which finally resulted
in the installation of Bush to the presidency of the
United States. Wallace also presides over Tigris
Financial Group Ltd, "a multifaceted investment,
advisory and
asset
management business with areas of focus that
include resources and the natural resources sector,
real estate, art and collectibles."
UANI is a
well-funded group which regularly runs anti-Iranian TV
ads on cable news stations. With budgets which are
seemingly devoted to UANI by the U.S. government, this
"advocacy organization" produces anti-Iranian
materials which are on sale in its online store. These
materials include lapel pin, bumper sticker, baseball
cap, yard sign kit and T-shirts on which several
anti-Iranian slogans are printed.
This
anti-Iranian group which is spearheaded and funded by
the extremist neo-conservatives in the United States
has emerged as a duplicate of "Freedom's
Watch", a lobbying organization which pursues
similar objectives to those of UANI in confrontation
with Iran and its nuclear activities. It's chaired by
Ari
Fleischer, a former Press Secretary to
ex-President Bush and Matthew Brooks, the executive
director of the
Republican Jewish Coalition. American
billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson funds this
group sumptuously and helps them in running
political campaigns and TV programs against
Iran.
According
to
peace activist and political journalist Richard
Silverstein, the website of UANI is backed bu Henley
MacIntyre, a former Bush political operative who was
involved in the RNC/White House email scandal. Times
reported in April 2007 that more than 50
White
House staffers violated the
Presidential Records Act by "inadvertently"
removing 2,400 pages of electronic documents which
were relevant to the discriminatory firing of eight
U.S. attorneys by the direct verdict of
President George W. Bush.
A little
bit of research demonstrates the fact that UANI and
its major players are not afraid of a nuclear threat
by Iran. It is
Israel
that is the sole possessor of nuclear weapons in the
Middle East. Why have they turned a blind eye to the
striking reality that it's only Israel that poses a
fundamental threat to the global security with its
hawkish politicians who don't know anything of peace
and stability? The specifications of Dimona nuclear
facilities in Israel are almost known to everyone. If
nuclear disarmament was the intention of UANI's
actors, they would start by disarming Israel and the
permanent members of
United Nations Security Council whose nuclear
arsenals are filled with thousands of atomic warheads.
If UANI was looking for peace and nuclear
non-proliferation, it would have advocated a
nuclear-free Middle East by demilitarizing the
sophisticated arsenals of the Zionist regime.
UANI claims
that its goal is to prevent Iran from possessing
nuclear weapons, so it persuades foreign firms and
companies to stop helping Iran in ways which could
lead to the development of nuclear weapons. Had they
been honest in their claims, why do they target Iran's
food, communication, housing, pharmacy and oil
sectors? What do these industries have to do with
nuclear weapons?
In a
nutshell, UANI is a fraudulent organization that
merely seeks impairing the
Iranian nation. They already know that Iran is
not after nuclear weapons, because the power of
Iranian nation does not essentially emanate from
military might. They already know that the Iranian
nation is unique and strong against those who nurture
malicious intentions for this powerful and robust
country. UANI wants a weak, demoralized and unstable
Iran without an active role in the international
community. UANI is not United Against Nuclear Iran, it
is United Against the Nation of Iran
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