Sunday Times: This is the front line of the war with Al-Qaeda. In other parts of Iraq their fighters are like ghosts, using car bombs and remotely triggered mines to deadly effect but rarely revealing themselves. In Diyala, Al-Qaeda troops are seizing villages in house-to-house battles that have plunged the province into an unacknowledged war. Iraqi villagers battle to hold off Al-Qaeda
Sunday Times: This is the front line of the war with Al-Qaeda. In other parts of Iraq their fighters are like ghosts, using car bombs and remotely triggered mines to deadly effect but rarely revealing themselves. In Diyala, Al-Qaeda troops are seizing villages in house-to-house battles that have plunged the province into an unacknowledged war. Iran students still in jail: lawyer
AFP: Three Iranian students were still in jail on Saturday after failing to raise bail after being charged with insulting the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, their lawyer said. Iran increases petrol ration: TV
AFP: Iran on Saturday started to allow motorists an extra 20 litres (5.2 gallons) of petrol a month under a rationing scheme aimed at cutting back on frenzied consumption, state television said. No ‘miracle’ for American missing in Iran
CNN: A trip to find a former FBI agent who is missing in Iran is almost over, “and the miracle we were hoping for has not happened,” his wife said Saturday. Iran says no information on missing ex-FBI agent
Reuters: Iran said on Saturday it did not have any information about former FBI agent Robert Levinson who reportedly went missing in the country nine months ago, comments likely to disappoint Levison’s visiting family members. Amnesty calls for release of trade unionist from Iran jail
Iran Focus: London, Dec. 22 A prominent international human rights organisation called for the immediate release of an Iranian trade union leader who was rushed to hospital after collapsing in prison. Amnesty calls for release of trade unionist from Iran jail
Iran Focus: London, Dec. 22 A prominent international human rights organisation called for the immediate release of an Iranian trade union leader who was rushed to hospital after collapsing in prison. Iran FM due in Bahrain next week
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 22 Irans Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is due to visit the oil-rich state of Bahrain next week. Iran FM due in Bahrain next week
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 22 Irans Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is due to visit the oil-rich state of Bahrain next week. Iran: Europe will become a Muslim continent, says Khamenei’s spokesman
AKI: Europe will eventually become a Muslim continent, according to a representative of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. 