Reuters covered Thursday talks in Paris among the U.S. and allies about Iran's nuclear ambitions. "The French Foreign Ministry issued a brief statement after Thursday's meeting, but gave no indication of any major new initiatives or steps forward. 'The meeting allowed the participants to review the current situation and to discuss the way ahead ... The Six will pursue their consultations on next steps in the upcoming weeks,' the statement said."
Read More Reuters reported comments from European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana saying that further contacts with Iran about its nuclear program might happen soon. "'There may be some contacts to follow -- (like) some of the contacts we had during the summer of my deputy with his (Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalili's) deputy to recuperate contacts -- soon,' he told Reuters ahead of an EU-Russia summit in Nice."
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Iranian press reported that "Iran's Labor and Social Affairs Minister has said that the number of unemployed Iranians rose by 253,000 for the first six months of the year."
Read More The New York Times covered the Thursday abduction of Iran's envoy in Pakistan. "Gunmen abducted an Iranian diplomat in the chaotic city of Peshawar in Pakistan's northwest on Thursday, a day after the assassination of an American aid official there. The diplomat, Hesmatollah Atharzadeh, who was the commercial counselor at the Iranian Consulate, was leaving his house in the suburb of Hayatabad when the gunmen attacked, the police said. His driver was killed."
Read More AP covered a report from U.S. Ambassadors Thomas Pickering and James F. Dobbins, Columbia University scholar Gary G. Sick, and others arguing that more threats against Iran will be ineffective. "'An attack would almost certainly fail' while coercing Iran with economic sanctions has very little chance of success, the experts say in a report to be presented next week at a conference on the future of U.S.-Iran policy. 'Threats are not cowing Iran and the current regime in Tehran is not in imminent peril.'"
Read MoreReuters reported that "Iran's U.N. envoy on Thursday accused Israel of abusing a Saudi-sponsored U.N. interfaith conference for political purposes and suggested the Jewish state had no right to take part."
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Bloomberg covered Iran's statement that OPEC was "very likely" to recommend a production cut this month. "'The market is in turmoil,' Mohammad Ali Khatibi, the nation's OPEC governor, told the Mehr News agency in Tehran today. 'In order to strengthen prices, OPEC is very likely to recommend another production cut as the two previous ones had no effect.'"
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The Los Angeles Times profiled an Iranian hairdresser who has become a social activist. "Obscured from public view, Iran's women have quietly navigated restrictions of politics, religion and tradition over the last three decades to bolster their status and advance into positions of power."
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