The United Nations on Tuesday strongly condemned Syria over its poor human rights record and also took aim at Iran in resolutions adopted by the world body.

A resolution condemning "the grave deterioration of the human rights situation" in Syria was adopted by a resounding vote of 125 to 13, with 47 abstentions in the General Assembly committee for human rights.

A British-Iranian woman jailed in Tehran since June was arrested for having contacts with the "opposition based abroad" and propaganda offences against the regime, a justice official said on Tuesday.

Ghoncheh Ghavami, 25, was detained outside a stadium in the capital where she had gone to watch a volleyball match.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday urged Iran to use "all possible effort" to prove that its nuclear program was peaceful as the final round of talks was to begin in Vienna.

"This is a very critical week obviously in Iran negotiations," Kerry told reporters in London ahead of talks with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed support Sunday for the U.S. fight against Islamic State militants, but cautioned against any softening toward Iran.

"We want them both to lose. The last thing we want is to have any one of them get weapons of mass destruction," Netanyahu said in an interview with CBS Face the Nation.

Iran's supreme court has permanently disbarred Tehran's former chief prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi, upholding a previous ruling, over the deaths of three jailed anti-government protesters, media reported Sunday.

Mortazavi was also suspended from public office for five years, the pro-government newspaper Iran said.

Iran and six world powers begin a final round of talks in Vienna on Tuesday aiming to overcome significant remaining differences and agree a historic nuclear deal by a November 24 deadline.

"There's still a big gap. We may not be able to get there," U.S. President Barack Obama warned last Sunday.

Iran will have "smart filtering" within six months to weed out Internet content the authorities deem offensive or criminal, the telecommunications minister said on Friday.

Tehran already blocks access to popular websites including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to stop Iranians from surfing content seen as immoral or undermining the Islamic regime.

British Ambassador Tom Fletcher has said that the election of a new president in Lebanon does not require the involvement of other countries, expressing disappointment at the failure of MPs to choose a head of state and warning of its dire consequences.

The constitution is clear in terms of the election of a new head of state, Fletcher told As Safir daily in an interview published on Friday.

A French delegation is expected to visit Beirut this week for further talks with the Lebanese army command on the purchase of French weapons under a Saudi grant.

France and Saudi Arabia signed the agreement last week for Paris to provide the Lebanese military with the $3 billion worth of weapons paid for by Riyadh.

Iran on Wednesday denied a report that one of its nuclear scientists was killed in an ambush near the capital of its war-torn ally Syria.

"There are no Iranian nuclear scientists in Syria," said Deputy Foreign Minister Hassan Ghashghavi, quoted by state news agency IRNA.