Reuters: Iran played down on Saturday the significance of an international anti-money laundering meeting in Paris that both the Islamic Republic and its old foe the United States attended.

Reuters: Iran’s main reformist coalition said on Saturday government bodies had barred the vast majority of its key candidates from running in next month’s parliamentary election but that it still planned to contest the vote.

Reuters: Ten Danish lawmakers on Saturday cancelled a trip to Iran two days before their planned departure as diplomatic discord mounted after Danish newspapers this week reprinted a drawing of the Prophet Mohammad.

AFP: Iran’s parliament on Saturday approved a three-billion-dollar spending plan to fund diesel and petrol imports during the next Iranian year, the official IRNA news agency reported.

AP: Syria denied Iranian claims that the two countries would conduct a joint investigation into the assassination of a top Hezbollah commander, the Syrian state news agency reported.

Bloomberg: Iran, the world’s fourth-largest oil producer, may use the Russian ruble in trading on its new oil exchange, the country’s ambassador to Moscow said.

FOX News: Two congressmen have asked the Justice Department to review of U.S. Treasury-supported fund being used to underwrite an Iranian plastic-making operation.

Washington Times: An international food company is pushing ahead with a legal challenge questioning how the Treasury Department decides whether companies can do businesses in Iran.