A six-year probe has not ruled out the possibility that Iran may be running clandestine nuclear programs, the chief U.N nuclear inspector said Monday, urging the country to reassure the world by ending its secretive ways.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday that Iran’s military will “break the hand” of anyone targeting his country’s nuclear facilities.

Iranian media are quoting the country's vice president as saying Iranians are "friends of all people in the world — even Israelis."

The U.S plans to establish a diplomatic presence in Tehran for the first time in 30 years as part of a remarkable turnaround in policy by President George Bush.

The decision by the Bush administration to send a senior American official to participate in international talks with Iran this weekend reflects a double policy shift in the struggle to resolve the impasse over the country's nuclear program.