By Reuters - Baku

Al Arabiya, 26 Jan 2012 -Authorities in Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic bordering Iran, have arrested two men suspected of plotting to attack prominent foreigners including Israel’s ambassador and a local rabbi, officials and media reported on Wednesday.

HUFF POST – By Roger Gale - 01/23/2012
If there is one thing guaranteed to have heated up the recent exchanges between the US and Iran, it is the issue of oil.

Buffalo News - By Wesley Martin   January 22, 2012 
U. S.-Iran relations since the 1979 revolution, always tumultuous, may have reached their tipping point.

ICFTO- In response to increasing sanctions imposed by the European Union on the Iranian regime’s oil sector, the mullahs stressed on continuing their drive to obtain nuclear weapons.

CNN, 23 Jan 2012 - The history of U.S. sanctions against Iran dates as far back as 1979, when hostages were held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Over the years, the U.S. government has approved other sanctions. In 2010, amid increasing tensions of Iran’s nuclear program, the United States instituted sanctions that U.S. officials described as “unprecedented.”

Council of European Union, 23 Jan 2012 - Given the EU’s serious and deepening concerns over the Iranian nuclear programme, the Council today broadened the EU’s restrictive measures against that country.

By David Amess
Politics Website, 23 Jan 2012 - While the world is rightly concerned about Iran’s nuclear and terrorist threats, it is imperative to also keep the focus on the plight of Iranian dissidents in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, argues David Amess MP.

WSJ - By JAY SOLOMON 23 January 2011
WASHINGTON—The Obama administration sanctioned Iran's third-largest bank, Bank Tejarat, closing off one of Tehran's few remaining conduits for trade with the West.

ICFTO • These warrants do not have any date, number, and the judge's name, and have been fabricated by the Iraqi Intelligence on the order of the Iranian regime. Many of these warrants are issued for people who had long been deceased or live in Europe.

ICFTO- Sanctions are necessary but the ultimate solution to the mullahs' regime nuclear weapons program is supporting Iranian people's struggle for regime change

Following the EU Council of Ministers’ decision of enforcing oil sanctions against the mullahs’ regime, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, said: