Iran: Britons involved in unrest 

Source: ReutersPeople run past a burning bus on a street in Tehran as clashes kill at least 10 Iranians

Iran's intelligence minister said some people with British passports were involved in post-election violence in the Islamic Republic, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported.
   
The statement by Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei was the latest in a series of allegations by Tehran of a Western role in the most widespread street unrest that has rocked Iran since its 1979 Islamic revolution.
   
He also said one of those arrested was "disguised as a journalist and he was collecting information needed by the enemies," Fars reported.
   
The same news agency said on Tuesday that a Greek journalist covering the election for Washington Times had been arrested.
   
Mohseni-Ejei said: "Whoever, under any name or title, collects information in Iran will be arrested and so far a foreign journalist has been arrested."
   
He said another person had also been arrested and interrogated and his equipment confiscated, without giving details.
   
Iran has accused the protesters of being backed by the West - the United States and Britain in particular - and have paraded arrested young demonstrators on state television confessing to being incited by foreign news broadcasts.
   
London and Washington have rejected the accusations.
   
Britain said on Tuesday it was throwing out two Iranian diplomats in response to Tehran's expulsion of two British diplomats as relations hit a new low following Iran's election.
   
"Some people with British passports were involved in recent riots," said Mohseni-Ejei, according to Fars.
   
Official results showing hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won re-election by a landslide sparked days of street protests.

His defeated moderate challenger, Mirhossein Mousavi, says the vote was rigged.
   
At least 10 protesters were killed in the worst violence on Saturday, and about seven more early last week.

State media has blamed the violence on terrorists and vandals.
   
"Those who call on people to come to the streets ... they are responsible for bloodshed," Mohseni-Ejei said, echoing a statement by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on June 19.
   
"Those law breakers who invited people to the streets with their statements are responsible for the bloodshed," the minister said.