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Monday, 23 June 2008 |
 Reuters: European Union states agreed on Monday to impose new sanctions against Iran, including an asset freeze on its biggest bank, over its refusal to meet demands to curb its nuclear program. |
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Monday, 23 June 2008 |
 AP: European Union nations have approved new sanctions against Iran, including an assets freeze of the country's biggest bank. |
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Monday, 23 June 2008 |
 Press Association: French President Nicolas Sarkozy has told Israel's parliament that a nuclear-armed Iran is "unacceptable" to his country. |
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Monday, 23 June 2008 |
 AFP: EU nations were set on Monday or Tuesday to adopt new sanctions against Iran targetting its financial institutions, especially the large Bank Melli, diplomatic sources said. |
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Sunday, 22 June 2008 |
 AFP: Damascus and Pyongyang helped Iran to develop its nuclear programme through the construction of a suspected nuclear site in Syria that Israel destroyed last September, Der Spiegel reported. |
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Saturday, 21 June 2008 |
 AFP: Iran on Saturday stressed it will not negotiate with world powers over its nuclear programme if it is required to suspend its controversial uranium enrichment activities. |
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Saturday, 21 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran appeared to dismiss on Saturday any suggestion of freezing its nuclear enrichment activities, which the West suspects are aimed at making bombs. |
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Saturday, 21 June 2008 |
 AP: Russia's foreign minister on Friday warned against the use of force on Iran, saying there is no proof it is trying to build nuclear weapons. |
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Saturday, 21 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Major powers have offered Iran preliminary talks on its nuclear work, on condition it limits uranium enrichment to current levels for six weeks in exchange for a freeze on moves towards harsher sanctions, diplomats say. |
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Saturday, 21 June 2008 |
 AFP: UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei warned that any attack on Iran would transform the region into a "ball of fire," in an interview with Al-Arabiya television broadcast on Saturday. |
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
 AP: Britain will push other EU nations at a summit on Thursday to explore tougher sanctions against Iran as the Islamic republic continues to ignore demands to halt uranium enrichment activities that could develop material for nuclear weapons. |
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
 AFP: The US Treasury Department said Thursday it was lifting an asset freeze on a Chinese company and its US subsidiary after they were blacklisted for aiding Iran's missile program. |
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Thursday, 19 June 2008 |
 AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday the "new game" of the West in the nuclear standoff with Iran would end in humiliation, days after world powers presented a new offer to end the crisis. |
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Thursday, 19 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran will never surrender to an "illegitimate" demand by major world powers that it halt uranium enrichment, Iran's state radio on Wednesday quoted the country's envoy to the U.N. atomic watchdog as saying. |
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008 |
 AFP: Iran said it will "never" suspend its enrichment of uranium, in defiance of demands from world powers to suspend the sensitive nuclear activity, the official IRNA agency reported. |
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran said on Tuesday it would continue enriching uranium, defying efforts by major powers to pressure Tehran into stopping such work. |
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
 AP: The European Union agreed Monday on the need to sharpen sanctions on Iran — possibly targeting the oil and gas sectors in what would mark Europe's strongest punishments yet to discourage Tehran's nuclear ambitions. |
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
 New York Times: Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Monday that Britain and the European Union would freeze the overseas assets of Iran’s largest commercial bank, joining the United States in intensifying financial pressure against Iran over its refusal to address international concern over its nuclear activities. |
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
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 The Times: Gordon Brown was right yesterday to threaten Iran with tougher sanctions immediately – if premature in announcing that the European Union had already formally agreed to do so, and if too grand in implying that freezing an Iranian bank’s assets was, on its own, a big step.
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
 Washington Post: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced plans Monday for new European sanctions against Iranian banking, oil and natural gas interests, signaling a growing willingness by Western allies to join President Bush in punishing Tehran for its nuclear enrichment program. |
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
 Washington Times: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave a ringing endorsement of President Bush's pro-democracy agenda in the Middle East, and said he will increase British troop levels in Afghanistan. |
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
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Reuters: The European Union did not take decisions on Monday to launch a new round of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said. |
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
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AFP: Iran's Bank Melli, the newest target for European sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear defiance, is the oldest bank in the country and has already been hit by punitive measures from the West. |
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
 AFP: US President George W. Bush warned Monday that he had not ruled out the use of force to end Iran's suspect nuclear program, but said that he hoped to end the crisis diplomatically. |
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
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Reuters: The European Union said on Monday it had agreed no new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme, apparently contradicting British statements announcing new measures on its financial and energy sectors. |
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
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Reuters: European Union foreign ministers have agreed a new round of sanctions against Iran's financial, oil and gas sectors, a British diplomat said on Monday after ministers met in Luxembourg. |
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
 AFP: EU foreign ministers will announce new sanctions against Iran Monday, White House national security advisor Stephen Hadley said. |
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
 AP: Britain will freeze assets of Iran's largest bank in a further move to discourage the country from developing nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday. |
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
 Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will present a united front against Iran's nuclear ambitions Monday and seek to dispel media suggestions of a rift over troop levels in Iraq. |
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
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 The Times: The discovery of designs for a compact nuclear bomb has raised fears that Iran and North Korea might have obtained blueprints enabling them to mount long-range strikes with nuclear-armed missiles.
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