Washington Post: Iran’s foreign ministry has issued a statement condemning the attack at the Boston marathon and expressing sympathy for the victims. But the statement, made by spokesperson Ramin Mehmanparast, also used the bombing to reiterate a political point that Iran has been making to the U.S. for months.

UPI: An oil exhibition in Iran is a chance to show that sanctions do little to displace the country as a world leader, Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi said.

AFP: The United States on Tuesday offered assistance to Iran and Pakistan after a massive earthquake near their border, despite Washington’s tense relationship with Tehran.

AFP: The leaders of Iran and Niger on Tuesday said they had engaged in “fruitful” discussions but had not talked about uranium during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s two-day visit to the world’s fourth-largest uranium producer.

Reuters: At least 13 people were killed and hundreds of houses destroyed in southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday when the region was struck by tremors from an earthquake that was centered in neighboring Iran, Pakistani officials said.

AP: A major earthquake described as the strongest to hit Iran in more than half a century flattened homes and offices Tuesday near Iran’s border with Pakistan, killing at least 40 people in the sparsely populated region and swaying skyscrapers and buildings as far away as New Delhi.

AFP: Israel’s army is capable of attacking Iran on its own without foreign support, Chief of Staff Benny Gantz told public radio on the 65th anniversary of the Jewish state’s foundation.