AFP: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that Washington has information that ex-FBI agent Robert Levinson is alive and in southwest Asia, four years after he went missing in Iran.

AFP: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that Iran is directly or indirectly communicating with opposition groups in Egypt, Bahrain and Yemen in a bid to shape events there.

Reuters: Two Iranian naval ships, whose passage through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean last month Israel described as a “provocation,” will return via the canal to the Red Sea on Thursday, an official said.

AFP: Hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday warned the United States against military intervention in Libya, saying such action would create a graveyard for its soldiers.

Wall Street Journal: Tensions escalated in Iran on Tuesday as antigovernment protests erupted nationwide following the arrests last week of opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi and their wives.

AFP: Iran has blasted arch-foe the United States over accusations Tehran is arming and training militants in Afghanistan, where US-led forces are battling a raging Taliban insurgency.

AFP: US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday that protests across the Arab world have dealt a major setback to Al-Qaeda militants and Iran by endorsing democratic change.