Reuters: Eight people died in fighting between gunmen and a religious militia in northwestern Iran near Turkey and Iraq, a government daily reported on Wednesday.
Clash in Iranian border area kills eight – report
US reporter in Iran ‘held secret report on Iraq war’
AFP: A lawyer for US-born reporter Roxana Saberi, freed this week from a Tehran jail, said on Wednesday the spy charges she had faced arose after she obtained a classified report on the US war on Iraq.
Khamenei offers implicit support to Ahmadinejad
AFP: Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Tuesday offered his implicit support to hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who is seeking a second term as the Islamic republic's president.
Iran very close to getting nuclear arms: Israel
AFP: Iran is very close to acquiring nuclear weapons, the head of Israel's military intelligence was reported as telling a powerful parliamentary committee on Tuesday.
German jailed for six years for selling rocket material to Iran
DPA: A German businessman was jailed Monday for six years after admitting he sold Iran 16 tons of high-grade graphite to make rocket nozzles.
Saberi’s release is one small step in Iran
Los Angeles Times – Editorial: The release of American freelance journalist Roxana Saberi after four months in an Iranian prison is a welcome decision that begins to redress the miscarriage of justice in her case, but not the larger problems that bedevil Iran, such as human rights abuses under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his predecessors or the country's disregard for the rule of law.
Roxana Saberi is free
Washington Times: But many more are in chains. Editorial: We were delighted to learn that an Iranian appeals court has suspended the eight-year sentence for espionage imposed last month on American journalist Roxana Saberi.
Suspected Iranian shells hit Turkish soil-officials
Reuters: Five mortar shells fell on Turkish soil on Monday after soldiers, thought to be Iranian, opened fire on Kurdish rebel positions in a remote area of northern Iraq, Turkish local officials said.
Iranian mortar shells ‘land in Turkey’
AFP: Several mortar shells landed in Turkey's southeast corner Monday after Iranian soldiers bombed Kurdish rebels positions in northern Iraq, a security source said.
White House praises release of journalist in Iran
AP: President Barack Obama is praising the release of American journalist Roxana Saberi from a jail in Iran.
