Iranian state TV said a bus carrying pilgrims on their way to holy sites in Iraq has crashed into a warehouse in western Iran, killing 28 people.

IRAN’S president declared victory over the United States yesterday while the head of a UN watchdog said Iran had been “somewhat vindicated” by a US report that it halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003.

Iran said last night it had detained two suspected al-Qaida members who entered the country illegally from Iraq, state television reported.