AFP: Egyptian authorities have released an Iranian diplomat detained on suspicion of spying on the North African country for Tehran’s intelligence services, Egyptian state media reported on Sunday.

Bloomberg: Iran’s parliament approved the outlines of a bill to impose travel and financial restrictions on 26 U.S. officials, whom it accuses of being involved in “human rights violations,” Mehr reported.

AFP: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday backed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government and called for an end to the crisis within the ruling conservative camp, state television said.

Reuters: Egypt has detained an Iranian diplomat who worked at Iran’s mission in Cairo for “passing information,” the news channel Al Arabiya reported on Saturday.

AFP: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad considered resigning after supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vetoed a minister’s sacking, but ultimately decided not to, parliament’s deputy speaker said Sunday.

Washington Post: U.S. officials say Iran is dispatching increasing numbers of trainers and advisers — including members of its elite Quds Force — into Syria to help crush anti-government demonstrations that are threatening to topple Iran’s most important ally in the region.

Wall Street Journal: Iran is taking steps toward an aggressive new form of censorship: a so-called national Internet that could, in effect, disconnect Iranian cyberspace from the rest of the world.