Bloomberg: Iran’s inflation rate rose to 23.5 percent in the month that ended on Aug. 20 from 22.9 percent the previous month, the central bank said today on its website.

AFP: Iran has “problems” exporting its oil, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad admitted on Tuesday, but he said his government was determined to overcome that and other challenges posed by Western economic sanctions.

AP: Iran’s state TV is reporting officials have released two Azerbaijan citizens in prison since May on charges of spying.

AP: The head of Iran’s navy says the country aims to put its warships in international waters off the U.S. coast “in the next few years.”

Bloomberg: Iran acknowledged there was a translation error in Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi’s speech at the opening of the 16th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran last week, the state-run Mehr news agency said.

AFP: Iran is the “only power” that can secure the oil-rich Gulf, a Revolutionary Guards commander said on Tuesday, adding that the reinforced US navy presence in the waterway was causing regional instability.

Bloomberg: Iran and Afghanistan will sign a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in trade, banking and tourism, the state-run Mehr news agency reported, without saying where it got the information.

Reuters: Iran could hit U.S. bases in the Middle East in response to any Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities even if American forces played no role in the attack, the leader of Lebanon’s Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah said on Monday.