Iran on Monday said it did not see possibility of an Israeli attack on its nuclear facility, the country's English language international news channel Press TV said.

The global oil market is oversupplied by two million barrels per day (bpd), Iran's oil minister said Tehran on Sunday.

Iran on Sunday proposed developing nuclear power plants jointly with neighbouring Arab states in the Gulf, amid international pressure on Tehran to halt its sensitive atomic work.

Iran has again warned that it would blockade the oil export route in the Persian Gulf if its nuclear sites were attacked, Iranian media reported on Saturday.

Iran has more than 5,000 centrifuges to process uranium at its enrichment plant, its nuclear chief said on Wednesday, in the country's latest defiance of UN demands that it halt the controversial program.

"We have to confront the Iranian revolution immediately. There is no way to stabilise the Middle East today without defeating the Iranian regime. The Iranian nuclear programme must be stopped," Israel's former Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon said in an interview.

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband will urge Arab leaders to clearly state their opposition to a nuclear-armed Iran and to engage more fully with the Middle East peace process.

A senior Syrian official has all but ruled out new visits by UN inspectors probing allegations that his country had a covert program that could be used to make nuclear weapons.

A new US intelligence report predicts that in 2025 global warming could help Russia's economy, non-Arab Muslim states like Turkey and Indonesia could be key players and the US dollar could further decline in importance.

Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency Mohammed ElBaradei in a report on Wednesday said Tehran has obtained some two tonnes of enriched industrial uranium since it started refining the nuclear fuel in 2006, according to Iran's official IRNA news agency.

Australia, Japan and South Korea secured solid wins on the road to the 2010 world cup but Iran’s hopes to qualify for South Africa suffered a blow as they were held to a 1-1 draw by UAE.

Iran has blocked access to more than five million Internet sites, whose content is mostly perceived as immoral and anti-social, a judiciary official was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

Iran, OPEC's number two oil producer, favours a cut in crude production of 1.0 to 1.5 million barrels per day when the oil cartel meets in Cairo later this month, state television reported on Saturday.

Israel will not tolerate a nuclear Iran and is keeping its "all options open" as the likelihood of diplomatic and economic efforts to thwart Islamic Republic's atomic plan succeeding is doubtful,a top ranking Israeli officialhas said.

Gunmen kidnapped an Iranian diplomat and killed his local guard in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, police said, in the latest of a series of attacks in the region.

A US envoy will meet his international partners in Paris this week to discuss Iran's nuclear ambitions, as the departing Bush administration aims to "work the issue," officials have said.

Mottaki's North Korean visit, following his Malaysian tour, is in the second leg of his four nation diplomatic mission to south Asia that will take him to South Korea and Myanmar as part of Tehran's 'Look East' policy.

US President-elect Barack Obama said on Friday that Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons was "unacceptable" and he would "respond appropriately" to a congratulatory letter from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Iran's parliament dismissed a Cabinet minister on Tuesday over his fake degree from Oxford University, a vote seen as a humiliating blow to hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who faces elections next summer.

Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has blamed the US for fomenting regional conflicts to make up for its failed Middle East policy, official IRNA News Agency reported on Tuesday.

Iraq's prime minister is pushing the idea that the US departure is in sight in a bid to sell the security deal with Washington to Iran. To reinforce the message, the Iraqis are asking for changes to the deal that would effectively rule out extending the US military presence beyond 2011.

India has backed Iran's right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and also underlined New Delhi's enduring special relations with Tehran irrespective of the growing strategic ties with Washington.

Iran is to cut down oil sales to the French energy giant Total by 70,000 barrels per day following an OPEC decision to slash output amid falling prices, the oil minister said on Saturday.

Iran's OPEC governor said the organisation may consider another cut in oil production due to a glut in the market.

The European Union was wrong to keep the assets of the People's Mujahedin of Iran frozen despite the Iranian group being taken off a British list of terrorist organizations, the EU's court ruled on Thursday.