Los Angeles Times: Plainclothes security officials stormed the private office of Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi and seized confidential files and records regarding her clients, the human rights lawyer said Tuesday.

Reuters: Iran has set up a court to try Israelis for its air attacks on Gaza and is ready to try in absentia any people who Tehran says have committed crimes, a judiciary official said on Tuesday.

AP: Iran's official news agency says dozens of hardline students have broken into the British Embassy residence in Tehran.

AP: The Bush administration on Tuesday expressed grave concern about the detention and interrogation in Iran of a prominent American academic, an incident that has led the National Academies of Science to suspend educational exchanges with Iranian institutions.

Reuters: Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit mocked the military records of Iran and the Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim movement Hezbollah in an escalating war of words over Egypt's cooperation with Israel in the blockade of Gaza.

AP: Resurfacing concerns over the world economy sent crude prices lower Tuesday, eclipsing fears that the conflict between Israel and Hamas could inflame tensions in the oil-rich Middle East.

Reuters: Iran's president presented an economic reform bill on Tuesday expected to include hiking fuel prices and directing subsidies to the needy, but some in parliament said it was ill-planned and would stoke inflation.

Daily Telegraph: The British ambassador to Iran failed to predict the downfall of the Shah until just days before his overthrow, official papers have revealed.

AFP: Britain and the United States clung to the belief that the shah of Iran would remain in power until shortly before the Islamic revolution, newly declassified documents from 1978 revealed Tuesday.