• Tehran seeks to boost trade ties with Iraq.
  • Ahmadinejad praises “strategic” relationship between Tehran and Moscow.
  • Russia endorses ElBaradei’s proposal to stop pressuring Iran, abandon demand that it suspend enrichment.
  • Larijani and ElBaradei to meet on Friday.
  • Amid pattern of EU concessions, Iran upbeat.
  • Confidence-building measures provided by Iran to the international community to date: zero.
  • Mahmoud Salehi, imprisoned labor activist’s health declining.
  • Despite its rhetoric about support for ordinary Iranians, Bush administration silent.
  • Previous “Iran News Round Up” on his case.
  • No resolution, more discussion on decade-long Caspian Sea dispute.
  • Official commentary on Caspian, replete with anti-Americanism.
  • Iran and Libya to set up joint investment fund to export influence in Africa, Latin America.
  • Mob attacks, beats Kuwaiti diplomat in Tehran.
  • Iranian parliamentarians demand Islamic states downgrade relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie knighthood.
  • Hardline, government daily repeats, endorses Jimmy Carter’s comments on Hamas, Washington and Tel Aviv plots (bottom right text box; full Persian text, here).
  • Picture of the Day: Sleeping on the streets in wake of Qom earthquake.