Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 04 – Iran successfully test-fired a land-to-sea missile on Tuesday during naval exercises in the Persian Gulf, the state-owned news agency Mehr reported.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 04 – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps successfully test-fired a shoulder-launched rocket during the fifth day of weeklong military manoeuvres in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman, a military spokesman announced on Tuesday.

Reuters: The United States on Monday confirmed that two Iranian navy ships had visited Indian ports last month, but played down the contact as the Bush administration struggles to win congressional approval for a landmark U.S.-India civilian nuclear energy deal.

New York Times: The spacecraft is small by world standards — a microsatellite of a few hundred pounds. Launched in October by the Russians for an oil-rich client, it orbits the earth once every 99 minutes and reportedly has a camera for peering down on large swaths of land.

Daily Telegraph: The Swiss bank UBS has become the latest casualty of raging “Iran fever” on Capitol Hill after key congressmen stepped up allegations that it had helped finance the Mullahs’ nuclear ambitions in breach of US sanctions, and that it had once banked for Osama Bin Laden.

Washington Times: Iran tested an older Scud missile variant last week and often exaggerates its military developments, the Pentagon said yesterday in response to Tehran’s reported testing of new advanced weaponry.