IAEA: Teheran truthful on key aspects of its nuclear history

A report from the UN nuclear watchdog agency on Thursday found Iran to be generally truthful about key aspects of its nuclear history, but warned that its knowledge of Teheran's present atomic work was shrinking.

The International Atomic Energy Agency report also confirmed that Teheran continued to defy the UN Security Council by ignoring its repeated demands to freeze uranium enrichment - a potential pathway to nuclear arms.

A senior UN diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because the report was confidential, described it as "a glass half-full or half-empty." That was unlikely to satisfy the US and its allies, who have said they would press for new Security Council sanctions unless Iran suspends enrichment and provides a full and detailed disclosure of past suspicious nuclear activities.

Reflecting that stance, Britain's Foreign Office said in a statement issued shortly after the report that, "as the IAEA report now shows that Iran has still not addressed several issues about its nuclear program, we will pursue further Security Council and EU sanctions."

"If Iran wants to restore trust in its program it must come clean on all outstanding issues without delay," the statement said. It also said Teheran must restore broader and stronger inspection rights to IAEA teams and mothball its enrichment activities to avoid such penalties.

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