FEB. 9 – “Brushing aside international calls for stricter sanctions against it, Iran said Tuesday it had begun enriching uranium for use in a medical reactor to a higher level of purity, raising the stakes again in its dispute with the United States and other countries over its nuclear program,” reports the New York Times.
[More]FEB. 8 – “Officials from the United States, France and Russia called Monday for stronger measures against Tehran after Iran told the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency that it would begin enriching its stockpile of uranium to power a medical reactor in Tehran,” reports the New York Times.
[More]FEB. 7 – “Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ordered the nation’s atomic energy agency on Sunday to begin producing a special form of uranium that can be used to power a medical reactor in Tehran, but that could also move the country much closer to possessing fuel usable in nuclear weapons,” reports the New York Times.
[More]FEB. 3 – Ynet news reports: “The State of Israel must conduct itself by the notion that ‘the work of righteous will be done by others,’ but should prepare in accordance with the words of our fathers: ‘If I am not for myself, who will be for me?’” Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon told Herzliya [...]
[More]FEB. 3 – “German companies, long Iran’s biggest trading partners in Europe, are finding it increasingly difficult to do business there as the United States, Israel and others campaign for tougher United Nations sanctions in response to the country’s nuclear program,” reports the New York Times.
[More]FEB. 3 – “Iran test-fired a new satellite rocket and unveiled a series of what it said were home-grown advances in a space program that has worried Western officials because of possible cross-over applications in the country’s weapons program,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
[More]FEB. 3 – “Iran is keeping open the option of developing nuclear weapons but it remains unclear whether Tehran has the ‘political will’ to do so, the U.S. director of national intelligence said on Tuesday,” reports Reuters.
[More]FEB. 2 – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday Iran was ready to send its enriched uranium abroad in exchange for nuclear fuel under a plan the West hopes will stop the material being used for atomic bombs,” reports Reuters.
[More]FEB. 2 – “Italian oil company Eni SpA (ENI.MI) has canceled a development phase of a field in Iran, Italy’s prime minister said on Tuesday, as Rome moves to block new oil and gas investments there,” reports Reuters.
[More]FEB. 2 – “America’s Vice President Joe Biden launched an outspoken attack on Iran’s hard- line leaders today, claiming they were ‘sowing the seeds of their own destruction,’”reports the Daily Mail.
[More]FEB. 2 – “Tensions over nuclear weapons in the Middle East and over Russia’s tactical arsenal tangled talks Tuesday aimed at pushing for global nuclear disarmament,” reports the Washington Post.
[More]FEB. 2 – “We have been trying to negotiate [with the Iranians] for five, six years. We’ve tried everything. We have met every Iranian. We have tried to open every possible channel. We’ve had new ideas and the result is this: nothing,” writes Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal.
[More]FEB. 1 – “Israel’s government has long tried to raise international concern about Iran’s nuclear ambitions and is likely to welcome the new US deployments in the Gulf if it signals a hardening of policy,” reports The Guardian.
[More]FEB. 1 – “According to the fat trade contracts current with Tehran, Italy would be more accurately described as ‘Iran’s biggest friend’ – at least, in Europe, where the Berlusconi government is also fighting to spare the Islamic Republic further sanctions,” reports Debka File.
[More]JAN. 31 – “It is time for President Obama and other leaders to ratchet up the pressure with tougher sanctions,” said the New York Times in an editorial, Saturday.
[More]JAN. 31 – Laura Rozen of Politico reports: “Israeli sources say CIA director Leon Panetta traveled to Israel this past week. He met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and Mossad chief Meir Dagan, one former Israeli official said. The main subject of conversation was Iran, as well as ‘relations’ in general, [...]
[More]JAN. 30 – “‘Nuclear weapons in the hands of a fanatical regime such as Iran’s pose a threat not only to Israel but to the entire world,’ President Shimon Peres told International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano on Saturday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,” reports YNETnews.
[More]JAN. 30 – ” The Obama administration is accelerating the deployment of a series of new defenses against possible Iranian missile attacks in the Persian Gulf, placing special ships off the Iranian coast and antimissile systems in at least four Arab countries, according to administration and military officials,” reports the New York Times.
[More]JAN. 30 – “President Barack Obama’s national security adviser is citing a heightened risk that Iran will respond to growing pressure over its nuclear program by stoking violence against Israel,” reports the AP.
[More]JAN. 29 – “The Senate passed a bill on Thursday that would allow President Obama to expand sanctions against Iran to pressure the Islamic republic to drop its nuclear weapons ambitions,” reports CNN.
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