US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday blamed the Iranian government for a deadly attack on an opposition camp in Iraq, and voiced fears of another assault. "We are deeply engaged in this. I am very concerned about the potential of another attack," Kerry told US lawmakers when asked about the February attack on a camp housing members of an exiled Iranian dissident group, the MEK.

Egyptian Islamist protesters threw stones at the house of Iran's envoy in Cairo on Friday and tried to scale the villa's walls but were blocked by police, a police official said. The Islamists, who object to a thaw in relations between Egypt and Iran, were also prevented by police from raising the flag adopted by Syrian rebels against Tehran's close ally President Bashar al-Assad over the envoy's house. They threw stones at the building as some held banners calling for the envoy's expulsion and opposing the "spread of Shiite Islam" practised by most Iranians.

The Albanian government said on Saturday the Balkan country was ready to take in 210 members of an Iranian opposition group who currently live at a former US military base in Iraq. "The government is ready to accommodate in Albania, for humanitarian reasons, 210 members of the People's Mujahedeen of Iran", or the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), Prime Minister Sali Berisha said in a statement. Albania will take in the Iranians, who currently live at Camp Liberty near Baghdad, following demands of both the US authorities and the United Nations, he said.

The United States rejected calls Tuesday for Iranian exiles housed in a camp near Baghdad that came under mortar and rocket attack to be sent back to live in their former base. The death toll from Saturday's assault on Camp Liberty, which houses about 3,000 members of the opposition People's Mujahedeen of Iran, meanwhile rose to seven, the group said.