Iran today warned it was "reconsidering" its relationship with Britain.

Iran warned today it will produce nuclear fuel on its own if there is no deal to have the West deliver the fuel in exchange for Tehran’s enriched uranium by the end of January.

IRAN said yesterday it would try three Americans jailed since crossing the border from Iraq in July, a step certain to aggravate the US at a time when Tehran is locked in a standoff with the West over its nuclear programme.

The disappearance of an Iranian nuclear scientist on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in June is raising questions about whether he defected and gave the West information on Iran’s nuclear programme.

Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed a new cabinet purged of critics and packed with loyalists and little-known figures today.

State media reported today at least 10 more deaths in post-election unrest and said authorities have arrested the daughter and four other relatives of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of Iran’s most powerful men.

Iran’s official news agency said Tehran will not give up uranium enrichment even if the West guarantees a supply of nuclear fuel to the country.

Iran’s foreign minister today dismissed the threat of an attack against his country, saying that the US could not afford another conflict in the Middle East.

Iran said today that it will begin operation of the country’s first nuclear power plant in the summer of next year using half its 1,000 megawatt capacity, the official news agency IRNA reported.

Iran has sent a formal protest note to Washington for “spying” on Iran’s nuclear activities, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said.

Iran seized on America's latest radical reassessment of its nuclear weapons capability today to justify its atomic research programme.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Baghdad soon in what will be the first-ever visit of an Iranian president to Iraq, a state television channel said on its website today.

The United States is ready to hold new direct talks with Iran on the deteriorating security situation in Iraq, the State Department said today.

IRAN yesterday warned that the United States would be made to “regret” its detention of five Iranian officials in Iraq but said it was still ready to consider continuing talks with its arch foe.

Iran and the United States resumed public diplomacy today for the first time in more than a quarter century.

British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has told Iran’s foreign minister that Britain wants Tehran to return the boats and military equipment taken when Iranian naval units seized 15 British sailors and marines in late March.

Two of the 15 captured British sailors pointed to a map of the Persian Gulf and identified where they had been arrested 10 days ago on video clips aired by Iranian state-run television channels.

Iran today rolled back on a pledge to soon free a British woman sailor, delaying her release because of Britain’s threat to freeze relations and refer the issue to the UN Security Council.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has held talks with Iran’s foreign minister over the detention of 15 British sailors and Marines.

Iran’s foreign minister said Britain must admit that its 15 sailors and marines entered Iranian waters in order to resolve a standoff over their capture.

A British servicewoman held captive by Iran may be released later on Wednesday or on Thursday, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told Turkey’s CNN-Turk television.

Iraq’s foreign minister has demanded that Iran release 15 British sailors and marines, saying they had been detained in Iraqi waters and were operating with government consent.

The UN Security Council voted unanimously today to impose moderately tougher sanctions against Iran, hoping to send Tehran a strong message that it will grow more isolated by refusing to suspend nuclear enrichment.

IRAN’S foreign minister yesterday accused Israel and the United States of posing the main threats to the security of the Middle East.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki today reiterated his country would never suspend uranium enrichment, a move the US says is essential for Washington-Tehran negotiations.

Iran said it was ready to negotiate over its nuclear ambitions, but refused to budge on demands that it suspend uranium enrichment.

An Iranian nuclear agency chief has denied claims made by a top governor that the Islamic republic had begun installing 3,000 centrifuges at an uranium enrichment plant, it was reported today.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki today said any UN Security Council resolution to pressure his country over its nuclear programme would be illegal, news reports said.

Iran faced fresh world condemnation as nearly 70 Holocaust deniers from around the world gathered in Tehran for a conference debating whether the genocide took place.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today said Iran would make an “appropriate and firm response” to any sanctions imposed UN Security Council because of the country’s nuclear programme.

Iran’s top nuclear negotiator will meet European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana later today in a European capital, Iranian state television reported.

The UN chief has got little satisfaction at the close of his trip to Tehran, snubbed by Iran’s leader over international demands to stop enriching uranium and ignored in warnings not to incite hatred by questioning the Holocaust.

Iran is prepared to negotiate on its nuclear programme but will not halt uranium enrichment ahead of talks, UN chief Kofi Annan said today after meeting the leader.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is expected in Beirut later today in the first visit by an Iranian official to war-hit Lebanon since fighting broke out between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah guerrillas.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today shrugged off the decision to refer Iran’s nuclear programme to the UN Security Council, saying his country would never abandon its plans for the peaceful exploitation of atomic power.

The European Union hopes for a substantive response from Iranian nuclear negotiators today regarding a package of incentives offered to Tehran as a way of ending the stand-off caused by its nuclear programme.

Iran’s foreign minister today rejected Western demands to respond by next week to an international offer to bargain over Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme.

United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan has urged Iran’s foreign minister to speed up Tehran’s response to a package of incentives from world powers to roll back its nuclear enrichment programme.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said after meeting Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in Geneva today that he believed Tehran was taking ’very seriously’ an offer of incentives to roll back its nuclear programme.

Iranian officials are to meet today with a senior EU representative carrying a package of rewards and penalties meant to stop Tehran’s uranium enrichment programme – including new US offers to lift bans on deliveries of some sensitive technologies.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said today that a breakthrough over Tehran’s nuclear program was possible, and welcomed unconditional talks with all parties, including the United States.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki today rebuffed a US proposal for direct talks on the Islamic country’s disputed nuclear program, state-run television reported.

Iran is prepared to negotiate on the large-scale enrichment of uranium, but will never abandon its right to enrich uranium, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said today.

Iran’s foreign minister today condemned what he called “unjustified propaganda” about his country's nuclear programme, and said he could not envisage reaching an agreement with Western countries that fear Tehran is seeking nuclear weapons.