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Document Reveals Scope of EU Trade with Iran

C.I. — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:32:55 +0000

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.

DPA: EU Wary of Slapping Iran With New Nuclear Sanctions

C.I. — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:29:20 +0000

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.

New EU Foreign Policy Chief Slams Iran Over Nuclear Defiance

C.I. — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:38:36 +0000

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.