AFP: Iran will punish actors and directors who make unauthorised films, an official said in a report on Sunday after several such movies won international awards. Iran to punish unauthorised filmmakers: report
AFP: Iran will punish actors and directors who make unauthorised films, an official said in a report on Sunday after several such movies won international awards. Iran’s dissident Grand Ayatollah Montazeri dies
BBC: One of Iran's most prominent dissident clerics, Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri, has died aged 87. Iran troops ‘leave oil well, still in Iraq’
AFP: Iranian troops who for three days controversially occupied a disputed border oil well left the facility during the night but remain on Iraqi soil, Iraq's government spokesman said Sunday. Iran claims an oil field it seized
New York Times: The Iranian government said Saturday that an oil field that its troops occupied a day earlier was on its side of the border with Iraq, despite Iraqi claims to the contrary. Mullen: ‘concerned’ about Iran’s influence in Iraq
AP: America's top military officer says there's no evidence that the takeover of an oil well in southern Iraq by Iranian forces is an attempt to influence Iraq's upcoming elections. Iran acknowledges oil well takeover
AFP: Iran on Saturday acknowledged its takeover of an oil well on the Iraqi border but insisted the well lies on its land, playing down the fallout from the first such incident since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Abbas blames Iran for continued political split
Ma’an: President Mahmoud Abbas accused Iran of putting pressure on Hamas to delay the signing of a conciliation agreement brokered by Egypt, an interview with the Palestinian leader in Egypt's Al-Ahram revealed Saturday. PRESS DIGEST – Iran – Dec 19
Reuters: These are some of the leading stories in Iranian newspapers on Saturday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Iran ready to examine nuclear fuel swap offers: FM
AFP: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Saturday Tehran was ready to examine the West's proposals for a nuclear fuel swap, the official IRNA news agency reported. Iran acknowledges prisoners were beaten to death
AP: After months of denials, Iran acknowledged Saturday that at least three people detained in the country's postelection turmoil were beaten to death by their jailers. 