AFP: New President Mahmood Ahmadinejad said Iran 
AP: Iran on Saturday rejected Europe’s proposal for ending the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program, calling it “unacceptable” and not up to Tehran’s “minimum expectations.” Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said the government would send its official rejection to the Europeans within days. 
BBC: Iran’s new ultra-conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been sworn in at a ceremony in parliament in Tehran. The ex-Tehran mayor succeeds the pro-reform Mohammad Khatami, who held office for eight years. Correspondents say that with the new president in office, hardliners now control all institutions of power and the reform period is over. 
The Times: Europe and Iran were last night headed for a serious diplomatic showdown, after Tehran vowed that it 
Daily Telegraph: Iran gave a cool reception last night to a long-awaited series of European Union proposals aimed at staving off a confrontation over Teheran’s nuclear ambitions. Following two years of diplomacy, the “EU3” – Britain, France and Germany – offered a range of economic and political incentives to try to persuade Iran to abandon its controversial uranium-enrichment activities. 
AFP: Canada threatened Friday to introduce a UN resolution
New York Times: The United States gave its explicit support
New York Times: Many of the new, more sophisticated roadside bombs used to attack American and government forces in Iraq have been designed in Iran and shipped in from there, United States military and intelligence officials said Friday, raising the prospect of increased foreign help for Iraqi insurgents. American commanders say the deadlier bombs could become more common as insurgent bomb makers learn the techniques to make the weapons themselves in Iraq. 
AFP: German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer called on Iran to renounce plans to resume sensitive nuclear activities and warned the Islamic Republic not to escalate the crisis, in an interview set to appear Saturday. Speaking with daily newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung, Fischer said Germany, France and Britain took Iran’s intentions to break the seal on a uranium conversion facility in Isfahan very seriously. 
Reuters: European Union president Britain on Friday called on Iran to free hunger-striking journalist Akbar Ganji, saying he was a prisoner of conscience, said a statement by the British embassy in Tehran. Ganji, an outspoken critic of Iran’s clerical leadership, was jailed for six years in 2001 for articles he wrote linking officials to the murders of dissidents.
