Reuters: Thailand has caved in to pressure from Iran and withdrawn the animated movie “Persepolis”, about a girl growing up and feeling repressed under Islamic rule, from next month’s Bangkok International Film Festival.

AP: Angry Iranians attacked several gas stations in protest after the government suddenly began long-threatened fuel rationing, while many others rushed to fill their tanks.

AFP: Angry Iranian youths torched petrol stations in Tehran and long queues formed at fuel pumps after the government announced the start of fuel rationing, triggering nationwide protests on Wednesday.

Reuters: Angry Iranians set fire to a Tehran petrol station and chanted anti-government slogans in a northwest area of the capital on Tuesday in protest against fuel rationing introduced in OPEC’s number two oil producer.

AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday dismissed as a “lackey government” Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s emergency cabinet headed by Salam Fayyad, the official IRNA news agency said.

AFP: Iran has arrested the crew on three Emirati boats it has seized for illegal entry and fishing in its territorial waters in the Gulf, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Tuesday.

Reuters: President George W. Bush would be forced to sanction oil and gas companies doing business with Iran under legislation that cleared a first hurdle on Tuesday by winning overwhelming approval from a congressional committee.