Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 22 – Up to 70,000 angry Tehranis on Monday rallied in central Tehran despite a massive government clampdown on protests and a warning by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) that it would unleash its wrath on anyone breaking a government ban on demonstrations.

Orange County Register: With the eyes of the world turned to protests in Iran, seven Iranian-Americans face prison in the U.S. for raising money for a resistance group in their homeland.

UPI: Iranian expatriates living in Europe staged a large anti-regime rally over the weekend, with European leaders increasing the pressure on Tehran.

Reuters: The Iranian parliament's foreign policy commission called on the Foreign Ministry Monday to reconsider ties with Britain, which Tehran has accused of making "interfering remarks" over the country's disputed election.

Wall Street Journal: The Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale.

New York Times: Even before his daughter and four other relatives were briefly detained on Sunday, one of the big mysteries to envelop Iran since the disputed presidential election has been the role of former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

Reuters: Peaceful relations between Israel and Iran would be possible if new leadership took power in Tehran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with German newspaper Bild.

Reuters: Iran began three days of airforce exercises on Monday in the Gulf and the Sea of Oman to raise operational and support capability, Iranian media said.

AFP: Faezeh Hashemi, the daughter of former Iranian president and powerful cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has been freed after two days in detention, the Fars news agency reported on Monday.

AP: Republicans intensified their criticism of President Barack Obama's handling of his first major test of international leadership, saying Sunday that he has been too cautious in response to Iran's postelection upheaval.