UANI Statement and Fact Sheet on Iran's Serial Violations of International Agreements
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 18, 2015
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On Monday, August 17, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) released a new ad entitled "Trust" as part of its multi-million-dollar campaign to educate Americans on the Iran nuclear agreement's serious defects. The ad highlights the fact that Iran has violated more than 20 international agreements, including being caught in 2009 covertly building a secret enrichment facility deep inside a mountain bunker.
"There is no reason to expect that Iran will approach this deal differently than previous international agreements it has violated, particularly when Iran can delay the inspection of suspected nuclear facilities for 24 days," said UANI CEO Mark D. Wallace, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. and UANI Chairman Joseph I. Lieberman, former U.S. senator from Connecticut. "The verification measures in this agreement are woefully inadequate to police a serial violator of international law like Iran. And even if we are able to detect Iranian cheating, there will be no meaningful penalties available to impose once the global sanctions regime is dismantled."
Please learn more about the Iranian regime's long record of violating its treaty obligations and multilateral agreements on key matters such as weapons of mass destruction, arms control, human rights, and governance.
Violations | Treaty/Organization/Resolution |
Illicitly developing its nuclear program | Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) |
Failure to suspend all enrichment-related and reprocessing activities until exclusively peaceful nature of nuclear program confirmed | UN Security Council Resolutions 1696, 1737, 1747, 1803, 1835, 1929 |
Assisting in the Assad regime's development and use of chemical weapons in Syria | Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) |
Seizing the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in the Iran Hostage Crisis (1979-1981), storming the British embassy in Tehran in 2011 | Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations |
Taking hostages, including the four Americans currently being held in Iran | International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages |
Publicly calling for Israel's destruction | Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide |
Violating the rights of national Arab, Azeri, Baloch and Kurdish communities | International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination |
Limiting the Baha'i community's access to education and subjecting them to mass imprisonment and systematic persecution | International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights |
Codified discrimination against women, whose testimony in court, for example, is worth half that of a man's | Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) |
Executing more child offenders than any other country in the world | Convention on the Rights of the Child |
Violently repressing freedom of speech and assembly, as in the 2009 elections protests | International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
Blocking millions of websites and jamming satellites to prevent foreign broadcasts | International Telecommunication Union (ITU) |
Shutting off ship transponders and smuggling weapons by sea in civilian vessels | International Maritime Organization (IMO) |
Click here to view the UANI resource, "The Islamic Republic of Iran's Violation of Treaties and Multilateral Agreements."
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