Dr Toben said the delegates were to be joined by Lady (Michele) Renouf, an eccentric socialite and friend of the right-wing historian David Irving, who was sentenced to three years' jail in Austria in February after disputing the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz.

Originally from Australia, Lady Renouf was thrown out of London's Reform Club in 2003 after trying to get Irving invited to speak there. In an interview in 2003 she described Judaism as a "creed of domination and racial superiority". Last month she was banned from addressing the far-right British National Party because it believed her views were extreme.

Dr Toben said: "I understand she is on a flight already. It will be her first visit to Tehran."

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