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US Puts Squeeze on Iran Amid Calls for UN Sanctions

(March 10) -- The United States is intensifying pressure on Iran commercially and diplomatically amid the push for new international sanctions targeting Tehran's nuclear program. President Barack Obama late Wednesday signed executive orders renewing the International Emergency Economic Powers Act "to deal with the unusual...

IAEA Suspects Iran Is Working on Nuclear Payload

(Feb. 18) -- The International Atomic Energy Agency suspects that Iran may be developing "a nuclear payload for a missile," according to a restricted report sent to the agency's board Thursday by Director General Yukiya Amano. The Vienna-based agency's suspicions come amid a global diplomatic push by the Obama...

Iran and the Disappearing Deadline

(Jan. 5) – In the parlance of diplomacy, there are soft deadlines and there are hard deadlines. And then there is Iran. The Obama administration's autumn threats to impose new sanctions if Tehran didn't compromise on its nuclear program by year's end have all but disappeared now that 2010 is here. That underscores...