Los Angeles Times: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's comments are seen as support for the foreign policy of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who faces a powerful conservative and two heavyweight reformists in the June 12 election.

New York Times: President Obama said Monday that he expected to know by the end of the year whether Iran was making “a good-faith effort to resolve differences” in talks aimed at ending its nuclear program, signaling to Israel as well as Iran that his willingness to engage in diplomacy over the issue has its limits.

AFP: Iran's ex-premier Mir Hossein Mousavi has been cleared by the Guardians Council, the powerful constitutional watchdog, to stand in June presidential elections, his media adviser told AFP.

AFP: President Barack Obama on Monday held intense first talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu which laid bare differing approaches on Iran and the US goal of a Palestinian state.

AFP: Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the Iranian people on Monday not to elect a candidate in the June presidential election who could adopt a pro-West stance.

Reuters: Iran has plans in place to deal quickly with the consequences of a proposed U.S. law that would penalise companies supplying the country with gasoline, its oil minister was quoted as saying on Monday.

AFP: Iran's foreign ministry said on Monday that a planned summit to be hosted by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with his Afghanistan and Pakistan counterparts has been postponed.

Bloomberg: President Barack Obama is counting on Iran to accomplish what six decades of diplomacy haven’t: forge a regional Mideast peace that includes a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It isn’t Iranian diplomacy the U.S. president is banking on; it’s the widespread unease over Iran’s nuclear program and its support of militant Islamic movements.