Following Blacklisting of Iran's Major Port Operator, UANI Urges Shipping Companies to End Business in Iran
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 23, 2011
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Following
Blacklisting of Iran's Major Port Operator,
UANI Urges Shipping Companies to End Business in Iran
New York, NY
- Today, United Against Nuclear
Iran (UANI) applauded the
U.S. Treasury Department for blacklisting
Tidewater Middle East Co. and Iran
Air for their ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and
their
involvement in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
UANI
repeated its call to companies around the world to stop doing business
with
Iran.
In a statement, UANI
President,
Ambassador Mark D. Wallace said:
In designating
Tidewater and Iran Air weapons
proliferators, the U.S. Treasury Department has highlighted Iran's
common
tactic of exploiting shipping and cargo carriers. The regime
has a long
history of falsifying cargo declarations and deceiving other nations in
order
to illegally import nuclear technology and ship weapons to terrorist
groups.
These sanctions
are more evidence that no responsible
company should be doing business with Iran or Iranian government
entities.
Cargo companies which continue doing business in Iran with
knowledge of
the regime's illegal shipping and transportation policies are not
'victims' of
false declarations, they are complicit in Iran's strategy.
According to
Tidewater's website, its
major clients include many of the
world's leading shipping companies such as: "IRISL, CMA-CGM, Evergreen
Marine Corp, Ignazio Messina, K-Line, Maersk Line, Malaysia
International
Shipping Corporation, Mediterranean Shipping Company, NYK Lines,
Pacific International
Lines, Regional Container Line (RCL), United Arab Shipping Company,
SimaTech,
Yang Ming Line, Orient Overseas Container Lines, COSCO, Hanjin, China
Shipping
Container Line, TS-Line, Emirates United Arab Shipping Company, and
WanHai."
In July 2010, UANI first highlighted
Tidewater's affiliation with
the IRGC and called on the Danish shipping company Maersk to end
its business in Iran, particularly
because of its business ties to Tidewater.
Click here to read
UANI's Executive Research Report,
"Iran's Exploitation of the Shipping
Industry."
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