Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged US allies Thursday to help cut off Iran's banks from the global financial system, accusing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard of funding and training Middle East militant groups.
UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei called Thursday on Iran to declare a moratorium on expanding uranium enrichment in order to defuse the crisis over fears Tehran seeks atomic weapons.
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Thursday an attack on Iran over its refusal to freeze programs that could make nuclear weapons would be "an act of madness," an indirect warning to the United States and Israel.
UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei called Thursday on Iran to declare a moratorium on expanding uranium enrichment work in order to defuse the crisis over fears Tehran seeks atomic weapons.
The chief U.N. nuclear monitor urged Iran on Thursday to stop expanding uranium enrichment to ease a standoff with world powers, who have demanded Tehran shut down the program entirely.
Iran threatened Thursday to further reduce cooperation with the UN atomic agency if new sanctions are ordered and insisted its uranium enrichment programme had gone too far to turn back.
It is not a particularly opportune moment, it appears, for Iranian-Americans to be visiting Iran.
UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei called Thursday on Iran to declare a moratorium on expanding its uranium enrichment work in order to open the way to talks on its suspected atomic weapons programme.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency cautioned on Thursday that an attack on Iran over its refusal to freeze programs that could make nuclear weapons would be "an act of madness," in indirect warnings to the United States and Israel.
Iran warned on Thursday it may reconsider basic cooperation with United Nations nuclear inspectors if it was hit with harsher U.N. sanctions over its expanding atomic program.