AP: State media has announced that partial results for run-off elections indicate conservatives have consolidated their control of Iran's legislature.
Iranian conservatives win in run-off
Conservatives lead in Iran’s second-round voting
DPA: The conservatives lead in the second round of Iran's parliamentary elections and are likely to expand their absolute majority in the country's legislative body, state media reported Saturday.
Polling stations quiet in Irans parliamentary runoff election
New York Times: Polls opened in Tehran and other areas of Iran on Friday for runoff elections to fill the 82 seats in the 290-member Parliament in which there was not a clear winner in the first round.
Naval incident raises U.S.-Iran tensions
Wall Street Journal: A U.S.-flagged cargo ship transiting the Persian Gulf fired warning shots after two small, unidentified boats approached the vessel.
Questions linger on scope of Irans threat in Iraq
New York Times: The United States has gathered its most detailed evidence so far of Iranian involvement in training and arming fighters in Iraq, officials say, but significant uncertainties remain about the extent of that involvement and the threat it poses to American and Iraqi forces.
Army interpreter faces spy trial
Press Association: An Iranian-born Army interpreter accused of spying will face trial in October.
Iranian interference a source of growing concern: military chief
AFP: Iran's growing and lethal interference in Iraq and elsewhere in the region is a source of increasing concern, the top US military leader said Friday, suggesting Tehran was on a collision course with the United States.
Top US officer warns of Iran efforts in Iraq, region
Reuters: The Pentagon sharpened its warnings about Iran on Friday, saying Tehran had boosted its support for Iraqi militias fighting U.S. troops and that Washington had military options to force Iran to stop.
Oil surges on Iran reports; U.S. stocks fall
Reuters: Oil prices surged more than $3 a barrel on Friday after a U.S. contracted cargo ship fired warning shots at boats suspected to be Iranian, driving down U.S. stocks along with a survey showing U.S. consumer confidence fell to a 26-year low in April.
Mullen says Iran still arming Iraqi Shiite militias
Bloomberg: Iran is continuing to supply arms to Iraqi Shiite militias that attack U.S. forces in Iraq, violating a commitment from Iranian leaders to halt such shipments, Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said.
