A freeze of relations with Iran will include bilateral meetings and all the state-sponsored commercial activities, British embassy spokesman said and added that Britain decided to freeze any business with Iran, including new property Iran developments in response to the capture of fifteen British navy and sailors by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Iraqi waters.

British embassy spokesman said Wednesday that a freeze of relations with Iran will include bilateral formal meetings and all the state-sponsored commercial activities.

"Furthermore, issuance of visas to Iranian officials and other affairs will remain in a dangling position as long as the existing problems are not solved and the 15 British sailors and marines are not freed," said the spokesman in an interview with IRNA following British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett's Wednesday statement.

Beckett in a statement to the British parliament on Wednesday announced freezing of certain areas of cooperation and relations with Iran.

"We need to focus all our bilateral efforts during this phase on the resolution of this issue," she said. "We will therefore be imposing a freeze on all other official bilateral business with Iran."

However, Iran says that these harsh measures would not affect the country, according to Iranian foreign ministry official as quoted by state news agency IRNA.

"Due to the unfriendly policies by the British government, especially in the nuclear dispute, relations between the two states had been cold and inactive anyway," the unnamed official said, as quoted by Deutsche Presse-Agentur.

Iranian official added that also no diplomatic contact between the two states was planned for the coming months.