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Saturday, 14 June 2008 |
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 The Times: Tehran will today be offered the chance of international assistance to develop a peaceful nuclear energy programme if it halts uranium enrichment — or face punishing sanctions within a month.
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Saturday, 14 June 2008 |
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 The Guardian: Iran will today be given a month to accept a package of incentives in return for curbing its nuclear programme or face new sanctions, in an ultimatum to be presented in person by a team of international diplomats.
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Friday, 13 June 2008 |
 AFP: EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana arrived in Tehran on Friday to present defiant Iranian leaders with a new offer from world powers aimed at ending the crisis over Iran's nuclear programme. |
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
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 The Times: President Bush issued a swift reminder yesterday that he was still willing, if necessary, to use America's military might against Iran, as he sought to prod a reluctant German Chancellor into supporting tougher sanctions and severing economic ties with the Islamic Republic.
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
 New York Times: Increasingly tough warnings from President Bush and his European allies have done nothing to temper Iran’s stance on its nuclear program, worsening the confrontation over what American officials and others suspect is a covert Iranian plan to build an atomic bomb. |
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
 AP: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned on Wednesday that the world has lost patience for Iranian foot-dragging regarding a possible return to bargaining over its nuclear program. |
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
 Reuters: European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Wednesday he hoped his trip to Tehran this weekend would start a new process for resolving the crisis over Iran's nuclear program. |
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
 AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday refused to back down over Iran's nuclear programme, days ahead of a trip to Tehran by the EU foreign policy chief in search of a compromise in the crisis. |
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
 AFP: US President George W. Bush said Wednesday after talks here with German Chancellor Angela Merkel that "all options" are on the table for dealing with Iran's suspect nuclear programme. |
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
 Bloomberg: President George W. Bush said that all options remain open regarding Iran and its nuclear program after talks in Germany with Chancellor Angela Merkel. |
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
 AP: President Bush said Wednesday that his first choice is to solve a nuclear standoff with Iran by using diplomacy, but "all options are on the table." |
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 |
 Reuters: The United States and the European Union sought on Tuesday to turn up the pressure on Iran to drop its nuclear enrichment program, saying they were ready to go beyond a latest round of U.N. sanctions. |
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 |
 Bloomberg: President George W. Bush won backing from the European Union for tighter sanctions against Iran's banks, another step aimed at hampering Iranian ability to build nuclear weapons. |
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 |
 AP: President Bush and European allies on Tuesday threatened tougher sanctions to squeeze Iran's finances and derail its potential pursuit of a nuclear weapon. Bush said the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran would endanger world peace. |
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran is withdrawing assets from European banks in the face of tightening international sanctions against the Islamic Republic over its disputed nuclear program, an Iranian daily said on Tuesday. |
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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
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AFP: EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana will probably travel to Tehran on Sunday for talks aimed at convincing Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment activities, he told AFP Monday. |
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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
 Reuters: The European Union and the United States will warn Iran on Tuesday they are ready to go beyond agreed U.N. sanctions if it shuns demands to suspend sensitive nuclear work, according to a draft summit communique. |
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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
 AP: President Bush's weeklong tour through Berlin, Rome, Paris and London appears every bit the glamorous old-style farewell tour with a leisurely schedule, jaunts to country castles and lavish dinners. |
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Sunday, 08 June 2008 |
 AFP: Israeli officials on Sunday slammed a senior minister's threat last week to strike Iran if it does not halt its nuclear drive, accusing him of using the issue for domestic political ends. |
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Sunday, 08 June 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's powerful parliament speaker Ali Larijani warned the UN nuclear watchdog on Saturday against playing for time in a dispute over Iran's controversial atomic programme. |
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Saturday, 07 June 2008 |
 Reuters: The United States understands Israel's concerns about the threat that would be posed by a nuclear-armed Iran, but remains committed to resolving this issue through diplomacy, the White House said on Friday. |
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Saturday, 07 June 2008 |
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 The Guardian: Israel "will attack" Iran if it continues to develop nuclear weapons, one of prime minister Ehud Olmert's deputies warned yesterday. Shaul Mofaz, a former defence minister and a contender to replace the scandal-battered Olmert, said military action would be "unavoidable" if Tehran proved able to acquire the technology to manufacture atomic bombs.
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
 AFP: Iran, under heavy fire at a meeting of the UN atomic watchdog here for failing to come clean on alleged nuclear weapons work, has told the IAEA that the matter is "over", Iranian ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh said Thursday. |
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
 AP: Iran is threatening to sue countries that it says have damaged its reputation and pushed to have U.N. Security Council involvement in its nuclear program. |
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
 UPI: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Wednesday called for tightening sanctions against Iran. |
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
 AP: The United States urged Iran to abandon the pursuit of nuclear arms forever, saying Wednesday that the International Atomic Energy Agency had overwhelming evidence of an Iranian weapons program. |
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
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Reuters: EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana confirmed on Wednesday he would travel shortly to Iran to present a major powers' offer of incentives for it to suspend uranium enrichment, but played down prospects of a breakthrough. |
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
 AFP: European countries urged Iran Wednesday to furnish all outstanding information on its disputed nuclear programme to the UN atomic watchdog to end a long-running impasse. |
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Wednesday Iran posed a serious threat in the Middle East and vowed to stop it from acquiring a nuclear weapon. |
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
 New York Times: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice escalated the Bush administration’s anti-Iran rhetoric on Tuesday, accusing its government of pursuing nuclear weapons and calling any dialogue with its leaders pointless until they suspend the country’s enrichment of uranium. |
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