AFP: Iranian Navy speed boats harassed US naval vessels in two recent incidents in the Strait of Hormuz, a senior US defense official said, confirming a CNN report.

AP: Britain’s High Court said Friday a retired businessman who allegedly plotted to sell missile components to Iran should be extradited to the United States.

Reuters: Saudi Arabia says it has enough oil output capacity to meet global customers’ needs if new sanctions keep Iran from exporting oil, a top U.S. Republican said on Friday.

Reuters: British Prime Minister David Cameron told Al Arabiya television during a visit to Saudi Arabia on Friday that economic pressure on Iran would force it to reconsider its position, a banner on the bottom of the screen read. The interview will be broadcast by the Dubai-based channel later.

AFP: The United States believes Iran is supplying munitions to aid Syria’s bloody protest crackdown in an initiative spearheaded by Tehran’s revolutionary guard supremo, according to senior US officials.

New York Times: Asian countries that are Iran’s biggest oil customers have been assured that if they yield to pressure from Washington to curtail the purchases, Saudi Arabia and its Arab neighbors will fill any gap in energy supplies, adding heft to the American efforts to choke off Iran’s petroleum exports, its primary source of revenue.

Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday wraps up a four-nation tour of Latin America that yielded kind words from ideological allies but no clear offers to help ease Western sanctions against its nuclear program.

AFP: The United States has used a secret channel to warn Iran’s leaders against closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz, saying that doing so would provoke a US response, The New York Times reported.