Bowing to Pressure, Porsche Drives Out of Iran

[Hum]

Porsche has become the latest international automaker to pull its business out of Iran in an apparent response to an effort by two U.S.-based advocacy groups to step up pressure on the Tehran regime.

United Against a Nuclear Iran and Iran Watch List launched their campaign in 2010 after they discovered the Iranian auto industry, the 13th-largest in the world, is dominated by members of the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

"We have to send a message to that regime that no longer can it be business as usual until they renounce their nuclear weapons program and stop sponsoring terrorism around the world," said former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mark Wallace, who heads United Against a Nuclear Iran.

Wallace says the auto sector feeds the Iranian regime not only as ?a massive source of revenue,? but also as a means of accessing advanced foreign technologies and products.

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[Japlabot]

So Porche just abandons all the R&D and technology that they have pumped into their plant over the years just like that. Great, so now the Iranians can grab what's left over and use it directly.

[Growled Member]

All this will do is renew Iran's resolve.

[SiCKX]

Ahmadinejad is the coolest attention ho troll of all time. His Iran is everywhere, even though for horrible reasons.