Reuters: Proposed U.S. sanctions on companies supplying gasoline to Iran would be so damaging to the Iranian economy they would only be passed as a last resort, although Tehran says such measures could be bypassed with ease.

AP: Opponents of Iran's hard-line president have accused him of trying to buy votes before the June presidential election by handing out checks to the poor.

Reuters: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seeking re-election next month, said his government planned to issue bonds that would give ordinary people a share in Iran's oil income, media reported on Tuesday.

Los Angeles Times: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's comments are seen as support for the foreign policy of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who faces a powerful conservative and two heavyweight reformists in the June 12 election.

New York Times: President Obama said Monday that he expected to know by the end of the year whether Iran was making “a good-faith effort to resolve differences” in talks aimed at ending its nuclear program, signaling to Israel as well as Iran that his willingness to engage in diplomacy over the issue has its limits.

AFP: Iran's ex-premier Mir Hossein Mousavi has been cleared by the Guardians Council, the powerful constitutional watchdog, to stand in June presidential elections, his media adviser told AFP.

AFP: President Barack Obama on Monday held intense first talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu which laid bare differing approaches on Iran and the US goal of a Palestinian state.