The chief UN nuclear inspector warned today he could not confirm that all of Iran’s nuclear activities are peaceful because Tehran is not fully co-operating with his inspectors.

Iran has summoned the French ambassador over what Tehran says is an increase of anti-Islam sentiment in Europe.

Iran today rejected US accusations that the highest levels of Iranian leadership had armed Shiite militants in Iraq with armour-piercing roadside bombs.

Iran could face sanctions if it continued to provoke Israel and the West, European leaders warned today, as the Tehran regime said its president’s remarks had been “misunderstood”.

Iran’s president proclaimed his country’s “inalienable right” to nuclear energy and offered foreign countries and companies a role in his nation’s uranium enrichment programme to prove Tehran is not producing nuclear weapons.