Iran threatened today to resume uranium enrichment – a process vital to the manufacture of nuclear weapons, at ”any moment”.

The Iranian government is dismissing rumours that the kidnappers of Irishman Aidan Leahy have been arrested.

Iran today urged Ireland not to pay a €5m ransom demanded by kidnappers of Irish citizen Aidan Leahy.

IRAN is holding top members of the al-Qaida terror network, the intelligence minister said yesterday, days after US President Goerge W Bush accused the country of harbouring terrorists.

Iranian authorities have arrested "top members" of al-Qaida.

IRAN’S supreme leader accused the US of stirring up trouble in the country after anti-regime protestors defied threats of a crackdown and took to the streets for a second night running.

Clashes erupted for a second straight night in Tehran, with anti-riot police and hard-line vigilantes beating up teenage demonstrators who had taken to the streets to denounce supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

An Iranian opposition group said today that Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards have crossed into Iraq where the group is based, killing 10 of its members in clashes that lasted several days.