Foreign Secretary David Miliband speaks to Iran's foreign minister about the five detained UK yachtsmen.

The British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, has warned that Iran’s nuclear programme presents an immediate threat to Israel and the rest of the world. So much is no more than the blindingly obvious. Predictably, Iran rejects this view. But look at the evidence it uses to back up its lies: ‘If an opinion survey is done in Britain, a majority of people will reaffirm that the Zion...

I have been personally reluctant to express much opinion over the recent events in Iran until the dust settled more, and a wider spread of opinions from Iran itself emerged. I took the same policy after the disputed elections in Kenya in December 2007, and the contrast is interesting, because among the Western press and

The UK foreign secretary has said that the pressure on Iran "will only increase" if Tehran refuses to resume negotiations over its nuclear programme.

Iran dominated Hillary Clinton's first meeting as Secretary of State with another foreign minister, as she and David Miliband discussed ways of curbing its nuclear ambitions.

Iran's claims that protests over disputed ballots were manipulated by overseas powers are rejected by the foreign secretary.

The well-connected Jim Hoagland has a preview of how the Obama administration hopes the next year or so of its foreign policy will pan out. On Iran, still the biggest foreign policy challenge facing this administration, Hogland writes: ‘The next diplomatic trampoline for Obama is the G-20 summit [on September 24th], which he will host and hope to use to forge new multilateral approaches on I...

This article argues that Barack Obama's conciliatory tone has caused difficulties for the hardliners in Iran. Obviously, the US and Iran still have major foreign policy differences and the US is still determined to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons. However, Obama has made it clear that he wishes to improve relations with Iran and make the relationship more nuanced and less one of simple mutual...

Britain will push the United Nations for a strong resolution condemning human rights violations in Iran, Foreign Secretary William Hague says.

Barely a year into the job, the British foreign secretary, David Miliband, appears to have made an influential diplomatic enemy in the shape of the patrician Russian foreign minister and veteran diplomat, Sergei Lavrov.