FEB. 3 – “Iran test-fired a new satellite rocket and unveiled a series of what it said were home-grown advances in a space program that has worried Western officials because of possible cross-over applications in the country’s weapons program,” reports the Wall Street Journal.

JAN. 30 – “President Barack Obama’s national security adviser is citing a heightened risk that Iran will respond to growing pressure over its nuclear program by stoking violence against Israel,” reports the AP.

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.

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.

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.

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.

JAN. 25 – “Israel’s prime minister has called on the international community to band together against enemies calling for the destruction of the Jewish state,” the Associated Press reports.

JAN. 23 – “Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday the United States and allies will not back down in pressing Iran on concerns that its nuclear program is weapons related,” the VOA reports.

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 – The U.S. State Department on Tuesday said Iran’s rejection of a proposal by six major powers to enrich uranium for a research reactor in Tehran was “inadequate,” Ynetnews reported this evening.

JAN. 19 -”‘Iran is ready to purchase electricity from Georgia,’ Iranian FM Manouchehr Mottaki said after the meeting with his Georgian counterpart Grigol Vashadze,” according to a report by News.am quoting the  Georgian Kavkaz press news agency.

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. 19 – “Iran will target Western warships in the Persian Gulf should the country come under attack from the U.S. and its allies,” says Iran’s Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi, in a report by Bloomberg carried by Business Week.

JAN. 19 – The Associated Press reports that Iran has rejected a Western offer to swap enriched uranium for nuclear fuel. See also this report by the Canadian Press.

JAN. 18 -”Iran vowed Monday to take revenge on Israel and the United States for the slaying last week of a physics professor in a mysterious bomb attack,” the Associated Press is reporting, citing Iran’s official news agency.

JAN. 15 – According to an Associated Press dispatch on the Jerusalem Post web site, U.S. Undersecretary of State William Burns is warning Iran of “consequences” if it does not comply with international solutions to limit its uranium enrichment program.

JAN. 15 -”The Obama administration will not initiate an offensive campaign against Iran,” predicted Israeli lawmaker and Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Tzachi Hanegbi at a New York  forum yesterday, according to several Israeli media reports. 
Hanegbi, who is a member of the opposition Kadima Party, said the United States will not succeed in eliciting allied support [...]

JAN.  13 – In the wake of Tuesday’s murder of an Iranian physicist in Tehran, several interesting details about Massoud Ali Mohammadi have emerged.
The Washington Post reports that Ali Mohammadi was involved in a regional project that included Israelis but was not connected to nuclear physics.  Michael Ledeen writes that Ali Mohammadi was not involved [...]

JAN. 13 – U.S. National Security Adviser Jim Jones has arrived in Israel today for three days of talks. According to several Israeli media outlets, the meetings are ”veiled in secrecy” and are most likely to center on Iran. See today’s brief report in the Jerusalem Post.