World powers including the United States have realized there was no secrecy over the country's new uranium enrichment plant, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday.

The official news agency IRNA quoted the president as saying that despite Western propaganda, it became clear that Ian was no keeping secrets over the new plant located south of Tehran, near the religious city of Qom.

Ahmadinejad said Tehran informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) out of respect for international regulations.

Iran on Friday harshly condemned Israeli policies in the Palestinian territories amid anti-Israel "Quds Day" rallies in the capital Tehran and other parts of the country.

According to state media, hundreds of thousands of people attended the state-run annual rallies.

Iran's political opposition said 69 people were killed in protests over the June 12 presidential election which led to the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a Tehran newspaper reported Tuesday.

Israel's defence minister called Monday for tougher sanctions to be prepared for Iran, but insisted that the military option remained on the table in case efforts to persuade Tehran to stop is nuclear programme failed.

The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Gholam-Reza Aqazadeh, has resigned, the ISNA news agency reported Thursday.

Aqazadeh, who also served as an Iranian vice president, submitted his resignation letter for the combined vice presidential and nuclear chief post to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad three weeks ago, ISNA said.

The Iranian proposal which is supposed to be presented to world powers does not include anything on the nuclear dispute, official news agency IRNA reported Monday.

An Iranian opposition cleric said violence and detainments could not solve the current crisis triggered by alleged fraud in the June 12 presidential election, the Iranian website Etemad Melli reported Saturday.

Iranian students hurled eggs at the German embassy on Saturday to protest the slaying of a Muslim woman by a right-wing extremist in a German courtroom.

About a dozen protesters gathered outside the building, chanting "Down with Germany" and "Down with Racist Europeans" as police guarding the embassy looked on.