Reuters: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown condemned violence and media curbs in Iran Friday in his strongest comments since the disputed presidential election a week ago.

BBC: The Foreign Office is to make a protest to the Iranian ambassador to London after his country's supreme leader called the UK government "evil".

AP: Iran's supreme leader said Friday that Iran's disputed presidential vote had not been rigged, sternly warning protesters to halt massive demonstrations demanding a new election or be held responsible for creating chaos.

New York Times: The daytime protests across the Islamic republic have been largely peaceful. But Iranians shudder at the violence unleashed in their cities at night, with the shadowy vigilantes known as Basijis beating, looting and sometimes gunning down protesters they tracked during the day.

Bloomberg: In 1989, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, then the most powerful figure in Iran, supported Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s appointment as supreme spiritual leader.

Daily Express: Protests over election results in Iran have left at least 43 people dead, it was claimed last night.

Washington Post: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's top political aide said Thursday that the United States will regret its "interference" in Iran's disputed election.

AP: World reaction to the upheaval in Iran is cautious and divided, reflecting uncertainty over fast-moving events within the country after its disputed election.

Washington Post: One of the more dramatic video clips from Iran this week showed a man in an upper-floor window firing onto demonstrators outside a building near Tehran's Azadi Square, killing at least one and wounding others.