FoxNews: It’s not hard for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to insist that the Holocaust never took place when there’s virtually no Persian-language record of it, but an Iranian-American author is making it his mission to correct the historical record in his homeland.

Reuters: Iran’s rial plunged against the U.S. dollar in open-market trade on Monday, taking its loss in value over the past week to more than a quarter in further evidence that Western sanctions are shattering the economy.

AFP: Iran on Monday removed online blocks on Gmail but a government Internet filtering committee official said other, additional censorship was being prepared against YouTube, according to reports.

AP: A lawyer for a cameraman who was accompanying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ah-muh-DEE’-neh-zhahd) to the U.S. for the United Nations General Assembly in New York says his client has defected.

Reuters: Israel’s “go-it-alone” option to attack Iran’s nuclear sites has set the Middle East on edge and unsettled its main ally at the height of a U.S. presidential election campaign.

Public Service Europe: After 15 years of court hearings and appeals, justice has finally prevailed and the PMOI has been removed from a list it should never have been on in the first place.

AP: Iranian officials announced that they would soon introduce local alternatives to Google and its Gmail e-mail service, even as the country’s media and even some officials stepped up complaints over Tehran’s decision to enact a ban on Gmail.

AFP: An Iranian jury on Sunday found the international news agency Reuters guilty of the crime of “propaganda against the regime” for a report early this year mischaracterising female ninja students as assassins, media said.

Reuters: Iraq will ask Syria-bound Iranian planes passing through its airspace to land for random inspections after Washington said they could be ferrying arms to Damascus, the Iraqi foreign minister said in an interview.