AFP: Iran could develop a ballistic missile capable of striking the United States by 2015, a senior US official told lawmakers.

AFP: Kim Yong-Nam, president of North Korea's Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA), will visit Iran in the summer, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Reuters: Iran's Revolutionary Guards will start three days of manoeuvres in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported on Wednesday.

AFP: Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that Tehran will not allow the United States to dominate the Islamic republic, taking another swipe at US President Barack Obama's "nuclear threat."

Reuters: Three members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards were killed in clashes this week with unidentified "counter-revolutionary forces," an Iranian news agency said on Wednesday.

AFP: Iran on Wednesday reiterated its rule over three disputed Gulf islands and rebuked the United Arab Emirates for comparing Tehran's control to an Israeli occupation.

AFP: The US Congress could send President Barack Obama legislation imposing new sanctions on Iran "in a matter of weeks," Democratic House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday.

BBC: Two people have been killed and several wounded when a car blast in the western Iranian city of Ilam, reports say.

AFP: The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday likened Iran's control of three disputed Gulf islands to Israel's occupation of Arab territories.