Reuters: Iranian media reported on Sunday that their country’s military had shot down a U.S. reconnaissance drone in eastern Iran, but a U.S. official said there was no indication the aircraft had been shot down.

AFP: Iran’s military said it shot down a US Army drone inside its territory near the Afghan and Pakistani borders on Sunday, and threatened to retaliate for the violation, Iranian media reported.

AFP: A deadly explosion at a missile development plant last month has not affected Iran’s ballistic missile programme, its top general said in comments published on Saturday.

AFP: France is to pull out part of its diplomatic staff from Tehran following the ransacking of Britain’s embassy this week by a pro-regime mob, adding to the backlash on Saturday against an increasingly defensive Iran.

Iran Focus: London, Dec. 03 – Click here for the full list of 180 persons and entities blacklisted on Thursday by the European Union for alleged involvement in Iran’s nuclear or ballistic missiles activities.

New York Times: Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. completed his 16th trip to Iraq this week to inaugurate a new, postwar relationship. But as he left behind the farewell rituals with troops for meetings in neighboring Turkey, crises afflicting relations with two nearby countries, Iran and Syria, were already replacing Iraq as Mr. Biden’s major preoccupations.

AP: Iranian diplomats expelled from London in retaliation for attacks on British compounds in Tehran arrived home Saturday, the official IRNA news agency reported, sealing Iran’s most serious diplomatic rift with the West in decades.

Reuters: Britain’s media watchdog said it has fined Iranian news channel Press TV 100,000 pounds ($156,800) for broadcasting an unauthorised interview with an imprisoned Newsweek journalist.

Reuters: Crowds chanted “Death to Britain” at Tehran University on Friday prayers as a hardline Iranian cleric warned the U.N. and European Union against siding with London after students and militia stormed the British embassy in Tehran.