BBC: Iranians have voted in elections which conservatives are expected to win after opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were barred from running.

The Independent: A gay teenager who faces the death penalty if he is forced to return to Iran has won a temporary reprieve after the Home Secretary halted his planned deportation and agreed to reconsider his case.

AFP: Iran on Friday voted in elections expected to tighten the grip of conservatives on parliament after a low-key campaign and the mass disqualification of reformist candidates by a hardline vetting body.

AP: Only a handful of voters showed up at many polling stations in Tehran on Friday in Iran’s parliament elections, a sign of frustration with a vote that hard-liners allied with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are expected to dominate.

The Scotsman: Iran sought to ally itself with Scotland last night, praising Alex Salmond’s administration for its anti-war stance and suggesting Tehran has more in common with Holyrood than Westminster.

Reuters: The United States, at loggerheads with Tehran over its nuclear program and Iraq, cast doubt on the fairness of Iran’s parliamentary elections on Friday and said any outcome of the poll would be “cooked.”

Iran Focus – Editorial: The Iranian regime continues its mad dash towards a nuclear bomb, triggering an inferno of violence and chaos in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East along its path. Meanwhile, the majority of the Iranian population has found itself confined in an economic firestorm raging within Iran’s borders.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 14 – Voting stations were deserted in many parts of Iran on Friday despite calls by senior government officials for a mass turnout in the parliamentary elections, according to eye-witness accounts and reliable reports.