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NOVEMBER 2, 2009 ARCHIVED STORIES:
WASHINGTON (BP)--Southern Baptist ethicist Richard Land has joined Jewish and evangelical Christian leaders in New York in calling for immediate sanctions to thwart Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
‘In seeking meaningful sanctions against the current Iranian regime, we are attempting to be salt In preserving Israel and the entire region from bloody conflict and terrible loss of life.’--Richard Land
| The president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission collaborated with Paul de Vries, president of the New York Divinity School and leader of the New York Evangelicals, and Joseph Potasnik, executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis, in issuing a statement Nov. 2 urging all governments to apply sanctions in order to produce effective diplomacy and encourage the human rights efforts of Iranians living under a militant Islamic regime.
The evangelical and Jewish groups recommended two actions proposed by some members of Congress:
-- Sanction banks that work even indirectly with Iranian banks;
-- Sanction firms or governments that export refined petroleum to Iran.
"Such actions could quickly damage Iran's economy, shrink the regime's domestic popularity, provoke real diplomacy, and engender significant steps toward ending the Iran regime's murderous pursuit of nuclear weapons," their statement said. "Leading nations should then engage in effectual diplomacy, resulting in enforced guarantees of an Iran without weapons of mass destruction, nuclear or otherwise."
Iran contends it is developing nuclear power for non-military purposes, but other countries are concerned the effort is to establish a nuclear arms program.
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