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...Iran??s current enrichment activities are in direct contravention of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1696 and 1737, which demanded that Tehran halt enrichment and slapped sanctions on the Islamic Republic. In light of recent developments, new sanctions have been proposed, but China’s refusal to approve any additional penalties for Iran has stymied hopes that coordinated international action might stop Iran??s rulers from pursuing a bomb. The United States must make it clear to China that its actions are absolutely unacceptable and constitute an irresponsible policy for a nation so committed...
...University as one of the subversive organizations allegedly responsible for the unrest following the nation’s “elections” last June. Apparently, Yale is one of 60 organizations involved in a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad plot to spawn civil unrest within Iran??s borders...
...should call on President Drew Faust and the Harvard Corporation to consider a targeted divestment from companies doing business with Iran??s energy sector. Divestment should not be considered lightly, but today it is a necessary tool. The Iranian regime oppresses its own people, it is the largest state sponsor of international terrorism against innocents, it has threatened genocide against its neighbors, and now it is charging forward with a nuclear program despite a global consensus in peaceful opposition. There should be an exceedingly high standard to meet for divestment, but today Iran certainly meets that standard...
...Iran. In October, the House overwhelmingly passed the Iran Sanctions Enabling Act by a vote of 414-6 (one of the bill’s original co-sponsors was Harvard alum and Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank). This bill authorizes state and local governments to divest from companies investing in Iran??s petroleum and natural gas sector or doing business with Iran??s nuclear industry. Since these companies are already liable for sanctions under the Iran Sanctions Act, states have a fiduciary responsibility to consider the financial consequences of holding stock in them...
...October, the Student Government Association at Morehouse, the nation’s oldest liberal arts historically black college (and Mr. Bennett’s alma mater), formally requested for their institution’s endowment to divest from companies doing business in Iran??s energy sector. Richard Fulton, a student signatory to the letter, declared in an editorial that the motivation behind the letter was “in order for the voices and concerns of Morehouse students to have real resonance in the various human rights and national security debates of our time…Iran?...