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.

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.

JAN. 20 - ”A proposal for Iran to send most of its enriched uranium abroad to allay fears it will be used to make atom bombs remains on the table,” according to a Reuters report citing the IAEA, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, ”despite Tehran’s rejection of key terms.”