Asset Freezes Net Only Small Sums as U.N. Weighs New Ones to Fight Nuclear Program By STEVE STECKLOW In its latest proposed set of tougher United Nations sanctions on Iran, the U.S. is again relying on asset freezes as one tool to pressure the country not to build nuclear weapons. But a close look at [...]

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  OTTAWA (AFP) – New sanctions against Iran are inevitable due to its continued refusal to curb its nuclear ambitions, Canada’s top diplomat said Friday. “Unfortunately, I believe we are left with little choice but to pursue additional sanctions against Iran, ideally through the United Nations Security Council,” Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon told a media [...]

  The US, at the urging of partners, has weakened proposed Iran nuclear sanctions at the urging of allies. A defiant President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said no country could stop ‘the fast speeding train of Iranian progress.’ Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the nation on the occasion of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, in Tehran on [...]

WASHINGTON — The United States has stepped back from a series of harsh measures against Iran and softened proposed UN sanctions to win the backing of China and Russia, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The newspaper said proposals that would have effectively closed international airspace and waters to Iranian state-owned air cargo and shipping [...]

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 [...]

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.

A bipartisan group of senators is pushing President Obama to move forward with new sanctions against Iran, now that his “end of 2009″ deadline for meaningful response from Tehran — which the administration insists was not a deadline — has long past.

The former president of a foundation that federal investigators allege is a front for the Iranian government pleaded guilty to obstructing a grand jury probe.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,654596,00.html ‘Embarrassing’ Incident in Gulf of Suez German Ship Transporting Arms for Iran ddp The US military discovered eight containers, similar to these ones, containing ammunition apparently being shipped from Iran to Syria aboard a German-owned freighter. US troops boarded a German-owned freighter in early October and found eight containers full of ammunition, allegedly headed [...]