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.
[More]JAN. 28 – “Europe boasts of its efforts to foil the Iranian nuclear program, but in reality has been trading with the Islamic Republic in the amount of some €65 billion (roughly $91 billion) in the past three years,” reports YNET news.
[More]JAN. 28 – “Iran will suffer consequences as a result of its refusal to cooperate with the international community on its nuclear program, U.S. President Barack Obama said during his first State of the Union address late Wednesday night in Washington,” report Haaretz and DPA.
[More]JAN. 28 – Russian official says “No formal bans bar delivery of any weapons to Iran,” reports the Jerusalem Post.
[More]JAN. 28 – “The Obama administration will this week introduce a paper to the permanent U.N. Security Council members and Germany outlining Iranian individuals and firms to be targeted in a new sanctions regime, said senior officials involved in the diplomacy,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
[More]JAN. 27 – From the Jerusalem Post:
Editorial: “Crying Wolf on Iran.”
Articles: ‘Iran, Nazi Germany Must be Compared,’ an interview with Israel’s Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman; and Merkel: Iran’s Tme is up, It’s Time to Discuss Sanctions
JAN. 27 – “When it comes to appeasing the Islamic Republic, no other Western nation has stooped lower than Italy,” wrote journalist Giuilo Meotti in the Wall Street Journal on January 14. Now, a spokesman for the Italian goverment, and the President of machine-maker, Seli, responds.
[More]JAN. 27 - ”…Failure to use the pressure of diplomacy and sanctions makes some future confrontation more likely not because the United States would (or should) attack Iran but that Iranian aggression will trigger conflicts in the region, whether or not America participates and whether or not Israel ever attacks Iranian nuclear installations,” writes Barry Rubin, director [...]
[More]JAN. 27 – “Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is confident Islamic nations will one day watch the destruction of arch-foe Israel, his website Wednesday quoted him as saying,” according to AFP.
[More]JAN. 27 – “An intelligence document being studied by diplomats in Israel and Western powers alleges that a secret Iranian office is charged with overseeing military elements of the nation’s nuclear program, Der Spiegel reported yesterday,” according to Global Security Newswire.
[More]JAN. 27 - ”Regime change in Tehran is the best nonproliferation policy,” writesRobert Kagan in the Washington Post.
And from “It’s the Economy, Stupid!” Department:
“Any attack on Iran would drive oil prices up dramatically from already high levels, and risk sending the fragile global economy back into financial crisis,” write Henri J. Barkey and Uri Dadush in the [...]
JAN. 27 – “U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is using meetings in London this week to press ahead with imposing tough new international sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program,” reports the AP.
And in Germany:
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that time and patience were running out on Iran’s nuclear program and that [...]
JAN. 27 – “Israeli leaders called Iran a threat to the world on Wednesday, which is International Holocaust Memorial Day, and vowed that the Jewish people would never again fall victim to a fanatical regime,” reports Reuters.
[More]JAN. 27 – “Companies that do business with Iran appear to be getting the message that time is running out,” reports Reuters.
[More]JAN. 27 - ”German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG will stop doing business in Iran by the middle of 2010, the company said Wednesday, as international pressure grows to isolate the country over its disputed nuclear program,” reports ABC News.
[More]JAN. 26 – “A top commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday that the country’s armed forces will unveil several missiles and weapons at the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution next month,” reports AFP.
[More]JAN. 26 – “Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Tuesday accused Iran of using talks with world powers on its nuclear program ‘to buy time,’” reports WashingtonTV.
[More]JAN. 26 – “Attaining the ability to enrich uranium up to 20 percent grade brings Iran dangerously close to “break-out” point for a nuclear weapon capability,” Debkafile’s intelligence sources report.
[More]JAN. 25 – “European Union foreign ministers on Monday backed away from threatening Iran with fresh sanctions over its controversial nuclear program, saying that the bloc should only bring in new restrictions if the United Nations Security Council asked,” DPA reports.
[More]JAN. 25 – “As if President Barack Obama didn’t have his hands full at home with his party’s loss of Ted Kennedy’s seat in Massachusetts, the collapse of health care reform and a disorganized war against the banks, he now faces a major foreign policy setback,” writes Massimo Calabresi in Time Magazine. “Since the 2008 [...]
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