AFP: Clashes erupted on Friday between hardliners and supporters of Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi when he visited a media exhibition in the capital, ISNA news agency reported.

Reuters: French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner was quoted as saying on Friday that indications received from Iran were "not very positive."

New York Times: A short midlevel cleric, with a neat white beard and a clergyman’s calm bearing, Mehdi Karroubi has watched from his home in Tehran in recent months as his aides have been arrested, his offices raided, his newspaper shut down. He himself has been threatened with arrest and, indirectly, the death penalty.

AFP: US lawmakers unveiled new Iran sanctions legislation Thursday that could bar major global telecommunications giants that do business with the Islamic republic from lucrative US government contracts.

AFP: Russia on Thursday said it would continue military cooperation with Iran amid widespread unease in the West over Moscow's controversial contract to sell advanced anti-aircraft missiles to Tehran.

METRO: A British nuclear expert who plunged to his death a day before talks with Iran began may have been murdered.

AP: The Obama administration is urging China, Japan and other countries to scale down their Iranian petroleum purchases to put pressure on Iran while the U.S. and others consider toughening economic sanctions on the regime.