AFP: Three Kuwaiti Islamist MPs said on Sunday they will file a request to grill the prime minister for allowing a prominent Iranian Shiite cleric to enter the Gulf state despite a legal ban. Kuwait Islamist MPs to quiz premier over Iran cleric
AFP: Three Kuwaiti Islamist MPs said on Sunday they will file a request to grill the prime minister for allowing a prominent Iranian Shiite cleric to enter the Gulf state despite a legal ban. Iran MPs urge Islamic response to Gaza crisis
AFP: Iranian MPs denounced "the crisis in Gaza" and asked Islamic organisations to respond to "cries" from Gaza's people, Iran's labour news agency ILNA reported on Sunday. Iran switches reserves to gold – report
Reuters: Iran has converted financial reserves into gold to avoid future problems, an adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in comments published on Saturday, after the price of oil fell more than 60 percent from a peak in July. Iran converts some foreign reserves to gold
AP: Iranian newspapers are quoting a top adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying the country has converted some of its foreign currency reserves into gold. Iran favours OPEC cut of 1.0 to 1.5m bpd
AFP: Iran, OPEC's number two oil producer, favours a cut in crude production of 1.0 to 1.5 million barrels per day when the oil cartel meets in Cairo later this month, state television reported on Saturday. Iran condemns Sufi to jail, flogging and exile: report
AFP: Iran's judiciary has sentenced a member of one of the country's largest Sufi sects to five years in jail, flogging and exile for spreading lies, the moderate Kargozaran newspaper reported on Saturday. Talks yield no new sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program
Los Angeles Times: World powers this week failed to come up with a unified strategy to press Iran on halting controversial elements of its nuclear program, as a report emerged suggesting the country had made progress in advancing a little-examined feature of its atomic infrastructure. Iraq improving but al Qaeda, Iran still threats: U.S.
Reuters: Violence in Iraq has decreased sharply but al Qaeda, Iranian-backed fighters and other militants remain a serious threat, as this week's bomb attacks showed, Washington's U.N. envoy said on Friday. Russia minister says Moscow against new Iran sanctions
AFP: Russia is against fresh sanctions on Iran over its disputed nuclear programme as demanded by some Western powers, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov said on Friday. Top Iranian cleric says US should stop being arrogant
AFP: A top cleric vowed on Friday that "Death to America" will continue to be chanted in Iran for as long as the United States maintains what he called its arrogant stance towards the Islamic republic. 