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. 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. 18 – “A key meeting aimed at tackling Iran’s suspected nuclear arms programme has ended in failure after a low-level Chinese delegate blocked a new round of sanctions against the Islamic republic,” reports James Bone.
JAN. 17 – Iran is branding the inability of the six nations to agree on stiffer Iran sanctions as a “natural failure” and proof that “the group recognizes Iran’s nuclear rights,” according to the IRNA news agency. See this AFP dispatch on the Ynetnews web site.
JAN. 17 – According to the Associated Press, representatives of six nations failed to come to agreement on imposing new sanctions against Iran.
A wide-ranging interview with Raymond Tanter, the prominent Georgetown University lecturer and leading expert on U.S. policy options toward Iran.
