Daily Telegraph: The battlements of the Iranian border fort began filling with guards alarmed at the sight of four British armoured vehicles 200 yards away with their guns trained across the border. It was the closest that British armour had ever come to Iran and was perhaps a subtle signal that toleration for Teheran’s continued supply of weaponry to southern Iraq would no longer be tolerated.

Washington Times: Will the real Mohammad Ali Jaafari, who now heads Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, please step forward? The existence of two prominent Iranians with identical names has created confusion, inside and outside of Iran, over who is in charge of the group accused by the United States of arming Shi’ite militias in Iraq.

The Guardian: The growing US focus on confronting Iran in a proxy war inside Iraq risks triggering a direct conflict in the next few months, regional analysts are warning.

AFP: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that US President George W. Bush had been defeated in his Middle East plans and would one day stand trial for “atrocities” committed in Iraq.