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Iran has supplied new data about its nuclear programme but not enough to prove it is not building a bomb, says the International Atomic Energy Agency. The UN's nuclear watchdog says it cannot provide "credible assurances" that Iran is not building a bomb despite new data supplied by Tehran.
The UN nuclear watchdog praised Iran for its co-operation but said it remained evasive on some questions. The International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran had granted new site access but remained evasive on key issues.
Iran was still enriching uranium in defiance of UN resolutions and was testing advanced equipment to speed up the process, the report said. Iran was still enriching uranium in defiance of UN resolutions and was testing advanced centrifuges to speed up the process, the report said.
Iran refuses to stop enriching uranium, claiming it is to generate electricity. Iran said the report was "positive" and would hamper calls for new sanctions.
More sanctions? "This report showed that our activities are peaceful," Reuters news agency quoted top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili as saying in Tehran.
The IAEA said Iran had finally granted its monitors access to previously off-limits nuclear component development sites. 'Serious concern'
But it claimed Iran had not responded fully to its queries about past efforts to "weaponise" nuclear material. But the BBC's Jon Leyne in Tehran says the mixed IAEA findings were not the clean bill of health Iran had sought and could result within days in a third round of sanctions from the UN Security Council.
And the agency concluded it could not be certain, on the basis of the information provided, that the programme was not designed to make nuclear bombs. class="" href="/1/hi/world/middle_east/4617398.stm">Iran's key nuclear sites
The BBC's Jon Leyne in Tehran says the report could result within days in a third round of sanctions by the Security Council. Tehran refuses to stop enriching uranium, claiming its nuclear programme is purely for power generation.
Our correspondent says Iran had been hoping for a clean bill of health but instead the IAEA's mixed report will probably spark new confrontations with the West over its disputed nuclear programme. The IAEA forged a deal last August with Iran for a timetable to resolve questions over aspects of its past nuclear activities.
Earlier this month President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said it would be a serious mistake for the Security Council to pass new resolutions against Iran. But Friday's report said Tehran had avoided a proper response to claims it had made covert efforts to "weaponise" nuclear material, conducted high explosives testing and design work on a missile warhead.
"This is a matter of serious concern and critical to an assessment of a possible military dimension to Iran's nuclear programme," the report said.
Without this data, the agency would not be able to provide "credible assurances about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran," the report added.
In Vienna, Austria, IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei told reporters that Iran had shown new transparency to his monitors but this was still not "sufficient".