http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/world/middleeast/07sanctions.html?hp
U.S. Enriches Companies Defying Its Policy on Iran

Fernando Bizerra Jr./European Pressphoto Agency
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, center, in Brazil last fall. The nations agreed to share technical expertise on energy projects.

The federal government has awarded more than $107 billion in contract payments, grants and other benefits over the past decade to foreign and multinational American [...]

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20100210/iran-suspends-googles-email-service.htmIran’s telecommunications agency announced that it would be suspending Google’s email services permanently, saying it would roll out its own national email service.

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Iran’s telecommunications agency announced that it would be suspending Google’s email services permanently, saying it would roll out its own national email [...]

The Senate on Thursday approved legislation that would let President Barack Obama impose sanctions on Iran’s gasoline suppliers and penalize some of Tehran’s elites, a move aimed at pressuring Tehran to give up its nuclear program.

The Associated Press
Sunday, January 24, 2010; 2:04 AM

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Human Rights Watch says Iran’s post-election unrest is a “full-blown human rights crisis” and calls on Tehran to free government critics detained during the crackdown.

The New York-based watchdog says the “systematic and brutal targeting” of demonstrators and dissidents by security forces [...]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704541004575011394258630242.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
By JAMES K. GLASSMAN AND MICHAEL DORAN

Al Qaeda bombers on U.S. airliners need prompt attention, but it is Iran, a supporter of terrorism now developing the capacity to fire nuclear-tipped missiles, that may pose the greatest threat to global stability and American security.
That threat can be diminished three ways: by military action, by compromise by [...]

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/Clinton-US-Allies-Will-Not-Back-Down-on-Iran-Nuclear-Issue-82295837.html
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. Clinton discussed Iran, and next week’s London conference on Afghanistan, with the new European Union chief diplomat Catherine Ashton and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
The fact that [...]

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/12/Iran.bahai.trial/
(CNN) — Seven leaders of Iran’s Baha’i minority went on trial in Tehran Tuesday accused of spying for Israel, a charge their supporters say is motivated by religious discrimination.
The seven — two women and five men — are also accused of spreading propaganda against the Islamic republic and committing religious offenses, charges that can carry [...]

http://www.rferl.org/content/Iran_Election_One_Of_2009s_Most_Dangerous_Stories_For_Reporters/1917663.html
December 30, 2009
An international media rights group has described Iran’s disputed presidential election as one of the most dangerous stories for journalists to cover in 2009.
The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said the June election and the protests that followed “prompted a horrifying wave of repression against the media.”
It also said it was concerned at the [...]

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BU1TO20091231
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A U.S.-Israeli dialogue on Iran has not reached the point of discussing a military option to thwart its nuclear ambitions, focusing instead on sanctions in 2010, Israel’s envoy to Washington said on Thursday.
At the close of a year in which U.S. President Barack Obama tried and failed to talk Iran into curbing [...]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-iran14-2009dec14%2C0%2C2861832.story
Washington - Western and U.N. nuclear officials are evaluating a secret Iranian technical document that appears to show that the country’s nuclear scientists are testing a key component used in the detonation of a nuclear warhead, according to intelligence officials and weapons experts familiar with the document.
The document, if authenticated, could rank as one of [...]