AFP: Iran is to shake up its regime for interest rates to take more account of rising inflation, officials said Sunday, after a government decision to slash bank rates was blamed for raising prices further.

AFP: Iran has expelled a German diplomat, the foreign ministry said on Sunday, after Germany reportedly expelled an Iranian diplomat for seeking to obtain nuclear material.

The Guardian: Last week our Iran correspondent was expelled without explanation. In his last dispatch from Tehran, he talks about the country he grew to love and which he found to be at odds with its image as an austere Islamic

Sunday Telegraph: Iran is developing nuclear missiles capable of reaching beyond its enemies in the Middle East to Europe, President George Bush will be warned when he visits Israel and the Palestinian territories for the first time since entering the White House.

Sunday Times: Israeli security officials are to brief President George W Bush on their latest intelligence about Iran’s nuclear programme – and how it could be destroyed – when he begins a tour of the Middle East in Jerusalem this week.

Reuters: A German diplomat has been ordered to leave Iran, a German news agency said on Saturday, in what may be retaliation for the expulsion of an Iranian diplomat from Germany in July.

AFP: US President George W. Bush said Saturday that his trip to the Middle East next week aimed to promote peace between Israel and the Palestinians and curtail Iran’s “aggressive ambitions”.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 05 – Registration began on Saturday for parliamentary elections to be held later this year in Iran.

AP: New Jersey announced Friday it will prohibit state pension money from being invested in companies that do business in Iran.