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.

AFP: Iran’s ruling conservatives on Saturday ratcheted up pressure on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to detach himself from his chief of staff and scrap plans to line up his own favourites for elections next year.

Wall Street Journal: Saudi Arabia is rallying Muslim nations across the Middle East and Asia to join an informal Arab alliance against Iran, in a move some U.S. officials worry could draw other troubled nations into the sectarian tensions gripping the Arab world.