UANI Urges Doosan and Bobcat to End Their Business in Iran
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 11, 2011
Contact: Nathan Carleton, [email protected]
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UANI
Urges Doosan and Bobcat to End Their Business in
Iran
New York, NY
- United Against Nuclear
Iran (UANI) on Wednesday
urged the Doosan Corporation
of South Korea and its
American subsidiary Bobcat to
immediately end their business in
Iran.
Doosan has a
significant presence
in Iran's energy sector, and has constructed at least nine power plants
in
Iran. Doosan has also worked with the state-owned Iranian oil company,
and used
the North Dakota-based Bobcat brand to sell construction equipment in
Iran.
Said UANI President,
Ambassador
Mark Wallace:
Doosan needs to
make the right decision, and end its business
in Iran. It is unacceptable and dangerous for a South Korean company to
be
aiding Iran, particularly when the business is related to Iran's energy
sector,
which is dominated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Bobcat is a great
American company that should be
appalled at the thought of its equipment being used by Iran. Bobcat
owes it to
all its employees and customers to ensure Iran does not receive its
products.
The website for the
Tehran-based construction equipment
distributor Touranto lists Bobcat as a supplier. Bobcat's
American
headquarters is in West Fargo, North Dakota, and it has been part of
the Doosan
group since 2007.
In a letter to Doosan
CEO Yongmaan
Park, Ambassador Wallace wrote:
Iran is pursuing
a nuclear weapons program and
developing the means to deliver those weapons with a ballistic missile
program
aided in large part by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
(DPRK).
The cooperation between Iran and the DPRK is particularly worrisome
given that
Kim Jong Il's regime has tested a nuclear device and has shown a long
and
established record of outward proliferation
UANI strongly
encourages Doosan to follow the lead of
other responsible companies like General Electric, Caterpillar, Kia,
Komatsu,
and Terex, and cease not only all exports to Iran, but its investments
in Iran,
particularly those that facilitate the ability of the regime in Tehran
to
pursue policies that threaten international security and run counter to
the
values of the global community.
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In addition to
the potential loss of contracts with the
U.S. government, long-term damage to Doosan and Bobcat's corporate
image is at
stake... Iran has an egregious human rights record and
continues to defy
the world by aggressively pursuing a nuclear weapons program with the
support
of pariahs like North Korea.
Click here
to send a message to Doosan and
Bobcat.
Click here
to read the full text of the
letter to Doosan and Bobcat.
Click here to learn
more about the Iran Disclosure
Project.
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