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UANI Advisory Board members are regularly featured in the media for their expertise on Iran's nuclear program.
May 14 2013
Gary Milhollin
"There has been a lot of talk about Iran making a sudden dash for the bomb. The fear is that, with its thousands of gas centrifuges and its tons of enriched uranium, Iran might be able to make a bomb’s worth of nuclear fuel before the U.S. or any other country could intervene to stop it... None of this seems to fit the administration’s playbook, yet without it, the U.S. has no way to build political support for taking action. This last point is vital. If prevention is really the policy, then force has to be an option. Yet the U.S. can’t attack Iran out of the blue. The American public would have to be prepared, as would U.S. allies. The U.S. government would have to remind everyone that the UN has condemned Iran for violating the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, that Iran thereby lost any right to enrich uranium, that the UN has called on Iran to cease enrichment, and that Iran hasn’t complied. To this could be added Iran’s unflagging support for terrorist groups, its supply of parts for roadside bombs in Iraq that have killed U.S. troops, and its outrageous violations of human rights. All of these could and would be cited in support of red lines, if prevention were really the policy. Instead, Uncle Sam has maintained a mild demeanor, intended to nurture negotiations. They have gone nowhere for years. It is clear why. Iran sees all too acutely that the U.S. isn’t ready to set red lines, and is even further from using force. None of the political groundwork has been done, or is likely to be done. Without it, threats aren’t credible. Thus, Iran sees no impediment to its long game. It is working well, and, unless something changes, it will give Iran the bomb."
Apr 22 2013
Ambassador Mark Wallace
"One of Britain's biggest companies has made millions of pounds selling goods to Iran, including to a state-owned firm that supplies the regime's nuclear programme. Glencore, commodity trading house run by the billionaire Ivan Glasenberg, traded $659m (£430m) of goods, including aluminium oxide, to Iran last year, the Guardian has established... Mark Wallace, a former US ambassador to the UN, said Glencore's dealings with Iran were 'completely unacceptable', adding: 'We might expect this from a Russian or Chinese company, but the truth is that even those companies usually stay away from this sort of exposure.' Glencore said it 'complies with applicable laws and regulations, including applicable sanctions. We closely monitor all new legal developments to ensure that we continue to be in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, including applicable sanctions.'"
Apr 04 2013
Mike Gerson
"Over the years, Americans have come to discount statements on Israel and Zionism by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Repetition has rendered them unremarkable. Israel must be 'wiped off the map.' Zionism is a 'germ of corruption' that 'will be wiped off the face of the earth.' It is a 'cancer cell' that must be 'removed from the body.' The Zionist regime is 'heading toward annihilation.' 'They should know that they are nearing the last days of their lives.' 'Israel is destined for destruction and will soon disappear.'... But Iranian incitement should not be glossed over. It is not common, culturally excusable or normal among nations. 'How many other states do we know,' asks Michael Abramowitz, director of the Center for Genocide Prevention at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 'that talk about other human beings in the way the Iranian leadership speaks of Israelis and Jews? They are conditioning generations of young people in their own country and the broader Middle East to think of Jews as subhuman, which makes acts of terror by groups like Hamas and Hezbollah seem more thinkable.' Several years ago, during an Iranian military parade, a Shahab-3 missile was decorated with the banner: 'Israel must be uprooted and wiped from [the pages of] history.' This can’t be reasonably construed as a vivid political metaphor. It is the depiction of a twisted ideal, broadly shared within the Iranian regime. And it is one reason that President Obama is right to draw his red line. Such a banner must never hang on an Iranian nuclear weapon."
Mar 18 2013
Ambassador Mark Wallace
"At Bandar Abbas, Iran's largest port, ships bearing the distinctive 'Evergreen' insignia dock and unload their cargo. On the other side of the world, Evergreen vessels make their scheduled calls at Los Angeles Harbor, the biggest container port in the United States. This isn't unusual. Several of the world's leading shipping lines routinely operate in Iranian ports—and then they continue to do business in major ports across the U.S. This is contrary to the spirit of U.S. and European Union sanctions, and it needs to be stopped... No company should be directly or indirectly supporting an Iranian regime that maintains an illicit nuclear-weapons program, is the world's most active state sponsor of terrorism, helped kill U.S. servicemen in Iraq and Afghanistan, and continues grisly violations of its own citizens' rights. Several rounds of sanctions against Iran have been enacted by the United Nations, the U.S. and the EU. American ports have the authority and the duty to help enforce them."
Mar 08 2013
Ambassador Mark Wallace
"Now, with robust international sanctions gradually altering the regime's calculus, it is time to go all in. A full economic blockade of Iran is now necessary to press the regime to give up its nuclear program. As the nuclear clock ticks, the international community must exert all of its leverage, and force the regime to make a choice between having a nuclear weapon, or having a functioning economy... Realistically, there is only one solution left given the stakes and timeline: blocking all of Iran's economic ties to the rest of the world. Some may consider such a move too severe, but in reality it is simply the next step in the drive to economically isolate Iran. Surely it is less drastic than military action, or a nuclear weapon in the hands of the mullahs. If we are to prevent catastrophe, the international community owes it to itself to say it has done all it can to put maximum economic, political and diplomatic pressure on the Iranian regime."
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