Reuters: The United States needs to be realistic about its efforts to engage Iran, whose leaders are lying about Tehran’s nuclear program and are on a path to building nuclear weapons, the top U.S. military officer said.

AFP: A moderate earthquake rocked southern Iran on Friday, state television’s website reported, with no immediate word on any casualties or damage.

Reuters: Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri visits Iran on Saturday, seeking its help to prevent political tensions turning violent if a U.N.-backed tribunal indicts Hezbollah members for killing his father.

AFP: Iran should keep out of the internal affairs of Arab countries in the Gulf and not meddle in Iraq and Lebanon, Egypt’s foreign minister said on Friday in a Qatari newspaper.

Wall Street Journal: The European Parliament Thursday passed a written declaration calling on the U.S. to remove the People’s Mujahideen of Iran from its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

Bloomberg: Commerzbank AG is cooperating with U.S. authorities on an investigation of transactions involving Iran and said it can’t estimate the outcome or financial impact of the examination.

BBC: Guernsey has adopted financial sanctions against Iran after the island signed up to a United Nations Security Council Resolution.