AFP: Google late Tuesday made mapping, photo-sharing, and Web browsing software available for the first time to people in Iran but blocked access by government computers there.

Ottawa Citizen: Threatening e-mails and phone calls resulted in the cancellation Tuesday evening of a film that exposes Iran’s efforts to build nuclear weapons and promote terrorism.

RFE/RL: Afghan journalist and author Abdul Razaq Mamoon is being treated in a Kabul hospital after a masked man sprayed acid on his face and hands.

DPA: Switzerland moved Wednesday to toughen its sanctions on Iran, with new bans to affect exports of technology and so-called dual-use instruments, including items that can be used for suppression of the opposition.

AFP: Iran’s foreign minister arrived in Senegal Tuesday, officials said, amid a diplomatic storm between the one-time allies over a huge cache of weapons from Iran that was intercepted in Nigeria.

Reuters: Iran has banned the production of Valentine’s Day gifts and any promotion of the day celebrating romantic love to combat what it sees as a spread of Western culture, Iranian media reported.