Tens of thousands of black-clad protesters filled the streets of Tehran again today, joining opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi to mourn demonstrators killed in clashes over Iran’s disputed election.

Supporters of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi are protesting in the capital Tehran for the fourth straight day over the disputed Iran presidential election.

An Iranian court acquitted a former nuclear negotiator of spying charges today but convicted him of acting against the Islamic government.

Former president Hashemi Rafsanjani was today picked as head of a powerful clerical body empowered with choosing or dismissing Iran’s supreme leader, state-run television reported.

Final results today showed Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's opponents have won elections for local councils.

An Iranian envoy says that Argentine prosecutors’ accusations linking former high-level Iranian officials to a 1994 Buenos Aires bombing are unfounded and an attempt to find a ”scapegoat” for the attack.

ARGENTINIAN prosecutors have asked a judge to order the arrest of former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre that killed scores of people.

Argentine prosecutors have asked a judge to order the arrest of former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural centre that killed scores of people.

Israel will “never dare” attack Iran because Tehran’s hand can reach the Jewish state, the former president of the Islamic republic warned today.

The former Iranian president said today that talk of US contingency planning for a military attack on Iran was overblown because such a move would be too dangerous.

IRAN has successfully enriched uranium for the first time and its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country "will soon join the club of countries possessing nuclear technology".

Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani said today that Iran has enriched uranium using 164 centrifuges, a major development in nuclear fuel cycle technology, news agencies reported.

Iran today successfully test-fired a missile with the ability to avoid radar and hit several targets simultaneously, the air force chief of the elite Revolutionary Guards said.

Confrontation with Western states over Iran’s nuclear programme has reached a climax, a former Iranian president said today.

WESTERN sanctions won’t impede Iran from resuming research at a uranium enrichment plant, former president Hashemi Rafsanjani said yesterday in a denunciation of the international outcry over Tehran’s nuclear activities.

Iran’s nuclear programme will not be impeded by any sanctions or action the West may take, former President Hashemi Rafsanjani said today.

Iran’s ultraconservative new president – spurning international outrage over his remarks about Israel – joined more than a million demonstrators who flooded the streets of the capital and other major cities yesterday to back his call for the destruction of the Jewish state.

IRAN’S hardline president marched in the streets of Tehran yesterday alongside tens of thousands of people supporting his call for the destruction of Israel — remarks that have been condemned around the world.

THE West cannot push Iran around as it has Libya and Iraq, a former Iranian president said yesterday.

ON the eve of Iran’s presidential election, US President George W Bush has said the voting has been designed to keep power in the hands of a few rulers “through an electoral process that ignores the basic requirements of democracy”.

On the eve of Iran’s presidential election, US President George Bush said the voting has been designed to keep power in the hands of a few rulers “through an electoral process that ignores the basic requirements of democracy".

Fearing a boycott after all reformist candidates were disqualified from Iran’s upcoming elections, the country’s supreme leader ordered the applications of some candidates be reviewed today, state-run television reported.

The latest round of negotiations aimed at convincing Iran to scrap its nuclear program ended without a breakthrough yesterday, although talks are set to continue, the Foreign Office said.

Iran, accused by the US of using a nuclear energy program as a front to produce weapons, has repeatedly said its program is for peaceful purposes only, and that it needs nuclear power to generate enough electricity to remain self-sufficient.

IRAN confirmed yesterday it initially developed its nuclear programme in secret, going to the black market for material. It blamed its discretion on the US sanctions and European restrictions that denied Iran access to advanced civilian nuclear technology.

Iran’s missiles now have a range of 2,000 kilometres, a substantial extension of their previously declared range, the nation’s former president said today.

Iran today accused the US and Europe of trying to stop it from gaining nuclear technology expertise and vowed to frustrate all such efforts.

President George Bush has told Iran that US humanitarian aid to earthquake victims should prove that America is compassionate, even though it lists the country as a state sponsor of terrorism.

Hundreds of pro-cleric militants and security forces clashed with Iranians throughout the capital for a fourth night, firing machine guns in the air and using tear gas and batons to put down any public opposition to the country’s hard-line regime.

A Belgian court is deciding whether to resume a war crimes investigation against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, even though the World Court has ruled that he has immunity as a head of state.

Yasser Arafat has been accused in a Brussels court of crimes against humanity.