New York Times: A son of Osama bin Laden who spent years under Iranian house arrest has left Iran and is now probably operating inside Pakistan, a senior American intelligence official said Friday.
Older son of bin Laden believed to be in Pakistan
Iran court convicts 4 over alleged US-backed plot
AP: Iran's official news agency reports that four Iranians have been convicted and sentenced to prison in an alleged US-backed plot to topple the government.
Iran leader denounces Arab ‘traitors’ in Gaza crisis
AFP: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced Arab "traitors" and "hypocrites" in the Gaza crisis, in a message Friday to Hamas leader Ismail Haniya, the state news agency IRNA reported.
Iranian collector jailed over British book scam
AFP: A wealthy Iranian businessman was jailed for two years on Friday for stealing pages from rare books in Britain's top libraries to improve his own collection.
Iranian nuclear programme has no civilian goal: Sarkozy
AFP: Iran's nuclear enrichment programme has no civilian purpose and is dragging it into a dangerous confrontation with the international community, France's President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday.
Fresh clues of Iranian nuclear intrigue
Wall Street Journal: U.S. security and law-enforcement officials say they have fresh evidence of recent efforts by Iran to evade sanctions and acquire metals from China used in high-tech weaponry, including long-range nuclear missiles.
Oil price weakness pressures Iran, Venezuela -CIA
Reuters: Weak global oil prices threaten to destabilize major oil producers Iran and Venezuela, but Russia is better able to manage because of its sovereign investments, CIA Director Michael Hayden said on Thursday.
Iran’s Ahmadinejad joins Gaza crisis summit in Qatar
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left for Qatar on Friday to take part in a regional summit on the Gaza crisis that was also to be attended by a string of other Israeli foes including Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, the official IRNA news agency reported.
US takes poke at Iran in signing UAE civil nuclear deal
AFP: The United States and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Friday signed a deal to cooperate in civilian nuclear energy, which Washington says contrasts with Iran's defiant nuclear ambitions.
Pakistan to go ahead with Iran gas pipeline project
Bloomberg: Pakistan plans to proceed with a project to import natural gas from Iran through a $7.6 billion pipeline that’s been delayed for more than a decade because of political and security concerns.
