Reuters: German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday to discuss the Jewish state’s conflict with Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip and Iran’s nuclear programme, Israeli officials said.

New York Times: Iran celebrated the 29th anniversary of the victory of its Islamic revolution on Monday as the government appeared to be taking steps to bury the chances of reformers in Parliamentary elections next month, putting on sharp display a split between veterans of the revolution’s early days and the nation’s current leaders.

Iran Focus: London, Feb. 11 – Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will travel to Damascus on Wednesday to hold talks with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on recent political troubles in Lebanon, a prominent Arab-language website reported on Monday.

Daily Mail: The Iranian president today attempted to humiliate Britain by parading a captured naval boat in a huge rally marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution.

AFP: Spaniard Javier Clemente has accepted the post of national football coach of Iran, officials here said Monday, ending months of uncertainty over who would take charge of one of Asia’s heavyweight teams.

Reuters: Polish gas monopoly PGNiG signed a preliminary deal with an Iranian state-owned oil company to cooperate on managing already-discovered gas reserves, it said on Monday.

AFP: Iran is to launch two more rockets into space in the next few months, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced on Monday, after a firing of a rocket earlier this month sparked international concern.