Vienna  - The five nuclear weapons states and Germany on Tuesday offered Iran direct dialogue to solve the nuclear spat, while also calling on leaders in Tehran to obey the demands of the United Nations Security Council.

Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States - the permanent members on the Security Council - issued their statement together with Germany to the 35-country board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna.

Tehran - An Iranian-American radio reporter has been arrested and detained in a Tehran prison, a judiciary spokesman confirmed Tuesday.

Ali Reza Jamshidi refrained, however, from saying on what charges Roxana Saberi, 31, had been arrested, the ISNA news agency reported.

Saberi, a US citizen with an Iranian father and Japanese mother working for National Public Radio in the United States, was reportedly arrested about one month ago.

Tehran  - Iran is to hold an international conference on Palestine aimed at exposing Israeli's alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip, Fars news agency reported on Tuesday.

"Three panels at the Palestine conference will be allocated to international obligations to follow up [Israeli] war crimes and violation of human rights," Iran's prosecutor general, Ghorban-Ali Dorri-Najafabadi, said.

The Palestine conference will be inaugurated Wednesday by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and attended by officials from Islamic and non-Islamic countries. No further details have yet been given about the participants.

Tehran  - An Iranian-American radio reporter has been detained in Tehran on charges of illegal press work, media reports said Monday.

According to her Iranian-born father, the 31-year-old Roxana Saberi, a US citizen, has been detained in an undisclosed location since a month ago.

Iran's daily Etemad was the first local newspaper to report her arrest.

Without confirming Saberi's detention, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi said Monday that Saberi, who works for US-based National Public Radio, had been denied official press accreditation since 2006 and therefore would have been working illegally.

Tehran - Tehran on Monday termed as baseless remarks by the head of the US military Joint Chiefs of Staff that Iran had enough fissile material to make a nuclear bomb.

"These are baseless remarks, even from the technical viewpoint, and just for political propaganda," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi told reporters in Tehran.

In a televised interview on Sunday, Admeral Mike Mullen, head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he believed Iran has enough fissile material to make a nuclear bomb.

"Iran is a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and all its nuclear programmes are under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency

Washington, Mar 2 (ANI): Iran has enough fissile material to build a nuclear weapon, but the Islamic Republic doesn't have a bomb yet, a top US military official has said.

The military official said on Sunday that he believes Iran has enough fissile material to build a nuclear weapon, but Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the Islamic Republic is a long way from having a bomb.

Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency revised its assessment of Iran's nuclear capabilities, saying it was wrong in earlier reports about Iran's ability to enrich enough uranium to make a nuclear weapon, FOX News reported.