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.

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 – “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 - ”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.

JAN. 22  -”Activists from political organization Stop the Bomb distributed fliers to the 3,500 stockholders of the German engineering and steel giant ThyssenKrupp here in this industrial city on Thursday, charging that 4.5 percent of the company’s stocks are in the hands of the Iranian government,” reports the Jerusalem Post.

JAN. 20 – “Iran has signed a one-billion-euro (1.44-billion-dollar) deal with a German firm to build 100 gas turbo-compressors,” according to a report by AFP citing an industry official quoted in newspaper reports.

JAN. 19 – “An Iranian official has denied a report that a state engineering company had signed a deal with a German company to help improve Iran’s gas distribution grid,” according to a report by Reuters.

JAN. 18 – “If we don’t apply sanctions, crippling sanctions against this Iranian tyranny, when shall we apply them?” asked Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, during a visit today to Germany. “If not now, when? The answer is now.” See this dispatch from the Jerusalem Post and AP.

JAN. 18 -  ”German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her country will back tougher sanctions against Iran if the country doesn’t change its tune on its nuclear program,” reports the Associated Press.

JAN. 15 – According to Reuters, Israel is broaching the idea of buying a sixth discounted submarine from Germany as part of a military buildup designed to signal strength in the face of Iranian nuclear ambitions.

JAN. 11 – The Associated Press is reporting that the United States and five other countries are likely to meet this week to discuss what to do about Iran’s nuclear program.

JAN. 11 – Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called today upon the international community to impose “tough sanctions” against Iran.
Speaking at a Likud faction meeting, Netanyahu said he would raise the issue next week at a special joint session of the German and Israeli governments in Berlin. 
“The international community must adopt tough sanctions against Iran, now,” said the Prime [...]