UANI Warns Munich Security Conference Attendees about Iran's Aggressive, Duplicitous Behavior in Full-Page Wall Street Journal Message

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

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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: [email protected].

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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