Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

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.

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.

JAN. 12 – “If we don’t have the rules kept to, then we have to take action in some form,” Catherine Ashton, the EU’s new foreign policy chief,  told the European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee in Brussels, yesterday, according to the Bloomberg news network. Click here for dispatch by WashingtonTV.