Christian Science Monitor: As the US and Asian neighbors of North Korea mull a united response to block the communist nation's nuclear program following a recent test, Israel is bracing for the fallout.

Reuters: Iran plans to issue foreign currency and rial-denominated bonds for a total of $12.3 billion over the next three years to help finance the development of its South Pars natural gas field, a state firm said on Sunday.

AP: Egypt does not agree with Israel's point of view that Iran's nuclear ambitions are a higher priority for the region than Mideast peace, the presidential spokesman said Sunday.

AFP: Iranian security officials defused a bomb planted on a domestic passenger plane, officials said on Sunday, the latest incident of violence in the run-up to the June 12 presidential election.

AP: A moderate think tank led by Iran's former top nuclear negotiator accused President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of distorting facts about the country's nuclear program to depict himself as a hero and improve his chances in the upcoming election.

Reuters: Iran executed in public three men convicted of involvement in a deadly mosque bombing in the southeast of the country, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.

UPI: Iran signed a memorandum of understanding in Baghdad with Iraq and Turkey to link power and energy networks with Syria.

AP: Gunmen wounded three people at one of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's campaign offices in southeast Iran on Friday, a day after a bombing in a Shiite mosque in the same city killed 25 people, the official news agency said.

Reuters: The death toll from a mosque bombing in southeastern Iran stands at 19, a senior official said on Friday.