Deutsche Welle - German chancellor took a hard stance in her speech at the Munich Security Conference Saturday.
 
Germany's Angela Merkel called on the world to stop Iran from going nuclear and controversially likened the threat of hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to that of the pre-war rise of Adolf Hitler.

Agence France Presse - The following is the text of the resolution passed Saturday by the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran:

The Board of Governors,
(a) Recalling all the resolutions adopted by the Board on Irans nuclear programme,
(b) Recalling also the Director Generals reports,
(c) Recalling that Article IV of the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons stipulates that nothing in the Treaty shall be interpreted as affecting the inalienable rights of all the Parties to the Treaty to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination and in conformity with Articles I and II of the Treaty,

Reuters - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's board of governors voted on Saturday to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council over concerns Tehran is secretly seeking atomic weapons, a diplomat said.

The diplomat said a European Union-sponsored resolution aimed at increasing pressure on Iran to improve its cooperation with an International Atomic Energy Agency probe of its nuclear programme was passed by the 35-nation IAEA board.

NCRI - In a joint declaration by more than 12,000 Iraqi Jurists and lawyers, terrorist designation of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran was rejected. The declaration called for removal of the PMOI from the list of terrorist organizations.

NCRI – In a public statement on February 2, Amnesty International called on Iranian regime to release hundreds of Tehran bus workers who were arrested last week. The following is the AI's statement:

NCRI – As the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency met on Thursday and Friday to decide whether to report Tehran to the U.N. Security Council over its secret program to acquire atomic bombs, hundreds of Iranians in their gathering in Vienna urged the body not to delay mullahs' referral to the Security Council.

The United Press International, WASHINGTON - A top Republican lawmaker Thursday called for a tenfold increase in U.S. aid to support democratic change and human rights inside Iran.

In a speech at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., called for U.S. aid to be increased from $10 million to $100 million this year.

"This is a pittance compared to the problem," said Brownback, "This Iranian government, even without nuclear weapons, is a viscous tyrant."

NCRI – The following is an urgent appeal by the British based human rights group, Amnesty International, raising concern over the plight of children arrested during a demonstration in the southern city of Ahvaz, capital of the oil rich province of Khuzistan: