Thousands gathered at the former US Embassy in central Tehran where the missile, believed to be a 1,243-mile range solid-fuel Sejjil, was on show.

A Briton charged with trying to smuggle a shoulder-fired missile to men he thought were al-Qaida terrorists appeared in court in the US today.

A British man arrested by the FBI over an alleged plot to smuggle a surface-to-air missile into the US is said to have praised Osama bin Laden.

A British man was appearing in a US court today after being arrested by the FBI over an alleged plot to smuggle into the United States a shoulder-fired missile capable of taking down a commercial airliner.