23 January: European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday are expected to agree to sanction Iran's central bank and announce an embargo on buying Iranian oil. On Sunday British and French ships joined a US carrier group in a flotilla

The United States, France, Britain and Germany accuse Iran of seeking to build a nuclear bomb, but Iran says its nuclear drive is peaceful.

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