Following Los Angeles Times Op-ed, UANI Announces Crane Manufacturer Tadano's End to Business in Iran
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 12, 2011
Contact: Nathan Carleton, [email protected]
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Following
Los Angeles Times Op-ed, UANI
Announces Crane Manufacturer Tadano's End to Business in Iran
New York, NY
- United Against Nuclear
Iran (UANI) on Tuesday
applauded Japanese crane manufacturer Tadano for ending its business in
Iran,
where the Iranian regime had misused its cranes to stage brutal public
executions.
On July 6, UANI
President,
Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, wrote a Los Angeles Times
op-ed, "Iran's Execution Binge,"
which detailed the
Iranian regime's use of construction cranes for public hangings. The
op-ed
subsequently ran in other newspapers including the Philadelphia Inquirer,
Providence Journal,
Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,
Albany Times Union
and The Gazette
(Cedar Rapids, IA).
Ambassador Wallace
wrote that
Tadano, whose logo had appeared in photographs of Iran's
public hangings,
"should take the principled stand of renouncing their business ties
with
the regime until Iran becomes a civilized member of the international
community."
Tadano officials
began
communicating with UANI, and informed UANI that Tadano would end all of
its
business in Iran, including severing ties with its distributor IER Iran
and the
Iranian company Part Loader Co.
UANI commends Tadano
for this
decision.
Said UANI President,
Ambassador
Mark D. Wallace:
Tadano is a
responsible corporation and its decision is another
example of an international company taking the right action in the wake
of
UANI's Cranes Campaign. UANI commends Tadano for its decision to end
its
business in Iran, and we thank Tadano's executives for their
responsiveness.
UANI hopes that even more crane companies will end their business in
Iran as
the bright light of world attention is cast on Iran's barbaric
execution binge.
Tadano's decision
follows a similar
one by Terex, which also recently
ended its business in Iran.
The UANI "Cranes Campaign"
highlights the Iranian
regime's abhorrent executions by hanging from construction cranes, and
the
disturbing reality that these cranes are coming from Western and Asian
companies.
Click here to view
the Op-Ed on the Los Angeles Times
website.
Click here to learn
more about UANI's Cranes Campaign.
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