"Death to America, Death to Britain, Down with Israel," chanted the women, all of them clad head-to-toe in black chadors.

They also held aloft banners which read "We never fear the Security Council", "Death to France" and "the spy den must be shut down".

Tehran female MP Nafiseh Fayazbakhsh labelled Britain, France and Germany -- which have been leading negotiations aimed at assuring Iran's nuclear programme is strictly peaceful -- as "non-believers who find new faults everyday and attack like dogs."

Dozens of anti-riot police kept a close eye on the small rally, which passed off without incident. Several days ago a similar protest saw the British embassy again pelted with stones, firecrackers and tomatoes.

The embassy is regularly targetted by protestors, and bears the brunt of anti-Western sentiment given that the US embassy in Tehran was stormed and shut down after the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Iran had been in talks with the EU-3 on providing guarantees the nuclear programme is only civilian, in exchange for a package of technical and economic incentives. But in August Tehran rejected the EU proposal and ended a full freeze on ork related to uranium enrichment -- a process that can be diverted to make atomic weapons.

The International Atomic Energy Agency last month passed a British-sponsored resolution criticising Iran for failing to come clean over it activities. The text also paves the way for the issue to be referred to the UN Security Council.