Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 17 – Some 500 students in Tehran’s Amir-Kabir University held a protest on Monday against the takeover of universities by Islamist groups affiliated to the Revolutionary Guards. These include the paramilitary Bassij Daneshjui and Jihad Daneshgahi. They also demanded the release of a fellow student activist.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 16 – Iran’s state-controlled press accused U.S. internet giant Google of “censoring” its products to the Iranian public.

AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad believes Iran will be victorious in its nuclear row with the West because he is “in relation with God,” the Iranian media reported Monday.

New York Times: As debate swirls about whether new international sanctions against North Korea will be effective, the Bush administration appears to have made some headway in using new American legal tools to cut off both North Korea and Iran from the international financial system.

BBC: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reportedly delivered a scathing attack on US President George W Bush, saying he is inspired by Satan.

Reuters: The only thing that surprised Abdolreza Tajik when the Iranian authorities shut the pro-reform newspaper where he worked was that it had survived so long since last year’s election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

AP: Iran’s president said his country has no reservations about pursuing its nuclear ambitions despite the U.N. sanctions imposed on North Korea for its purported nuclear test.