Reuters: China’s Sinopec Corp is retooling an idled crude distillation unit at its Tianjin refinery into a condensate splitter to process Iran’s South Pars condensate, an industry official told Reuters on Tuesday.

AFP: Iranian security forces swept through the homes of opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi and his family, arresting one of his sons and confiscating several documents, his website reported on Tuesday.

AFP: Malaysian police said Tuesday they have dented a major drugs syndicate with the arrest of two Iranian women with over 6.2 kilogrammes of methamphetamine on a resort island.

New York Times: Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office on Monday addressed criticism of her foreign minister’s decision to meet the Iranian president over the weekend, saying that it was the price to pay for the release of two German journalists and that it did not change Germany’s criticisms of the Iranian government.

BBC: Two Iranian warships have entered the Suez Canal to make a passage to the Mediterranean Sea, canal officials say.

AFP: Iran continues to foment instability in the Middle East but is not behind popular protests in Bahrain and other countries in the region, top US military officer Admiral Mike Mullen said Monday in the Qatari capital.

AFP: Iran finally withdrew its entire fleet of Soviet era Tupolev aircraft on Sunday after a series of fatal accidents involving the planes, a top aviation official said.

AFP: Two Iranian naval ships are likely to pass the Suez Canal on Tuesday, a canal source said on Monday, en route to Syria on a purported training mission that Israel regards as a provocation.

AFP: Two German reporters detained in Iran after interviewing the son and lawyer of a woman facing death by stoning arrived home Sunday after being fined and freed, the foreign ministry said.

Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad presented a delayed budget bill to parliament on Sunday, urging lawmakers to swiftly approve a package he said would continue his drive to reduce social inequality.