UPI: A press freedom group Thursday condemned the showing on Iranian state-run TV videotapes of people saying they had protested at the request of foreign media.

AFP: Iran's growing influence in Latin America is a "potential risk" to the region, the newly-appointed head of the US Southern Command, General Douglas Fraser has warned.

AP: An Iranian doctor who claims he tried to save Neda Agha Soltan as the young Iranian protester bled to death on the streets of Tehran said Thursday that she apparently was shot by a member of Iran's pro-government Basij militia.

AFP: Top Iranian dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri warned on Thursday that continued suppression of opposition protests could threaten the very basis of the Islamic republic.

AFP: Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani and over 100 MPs refused to attend a victory dinner party hosted by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, newspapers reported on Thursday.

Reuters: Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country is set to take over the EU presidency next week, cautioned on Thursday against European sanctions towards Iran, saying they could be counterproductive.

AFP: Iran's envoy to Brussels on Thursday accused the European Union of supporting protests in his country and urged the bloc not to interfere in the Islamic republic's internal affairs.

AFP: US Senators bluntly charged Thursday that Iran's presidential vote was rigged and vowed to help the opposition defeat curbs on news and the social networking Internet sites it has used to organize.

BBC: I had to leave Iran last Sunday, when the authorities refused to renew my visa. But before I left, a former senior Revolutionary Guard came to our hotel to see us. "Remember me," he pleaded. "Remember that I helped the BBC." I realised that even a person so intimately linked to the Islamic Revolution thinks that something will soon change in Iran.

AFP: The White House Thursday accused President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad of trying to make Iran's political crisis "about the United States" in a first reaction to his latest fiery speech.