Iran minister denies interview

Dubai - The Iranian Vice-President, Ms Masoumeh Ebtekar, denied giving an interview to an Israeli newspaper which quoted her yesterday as supporting a dialogue between Iranians and Israelis. Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's biggest-selling daily, said its correspondent spoke to Ms Ebtekar at the economic summit in Davos, Switzerland in "the first interview by an Iranian political figure with an Israeli newspaper" since the Islamic revolution in 1979.