IAEA's Iran report raises concern in US

The report continues "to demonstrate the failure of the Iranian government to live up to its international obligations," US President Barack Obama's spokesman said on Thursday.

The report is the first one under new International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Chief Amano who has reportedly wants to see his job as "just the facts," and to pursue a more technical approach than former IAEA Director General Mohamed El Baradei.

"The president has on a number of occasions talked about engagement, talked about the benefits of living up to those international obligations," White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters.

"We always said that if Iran failed to live up to those international obligations that there would be consequences," he added.

The report once again verified the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran.

"The information available to the agency is extensive… broadly consistent and credible in terms of the technical detail, the time frame in which the activities were conducted and the people, and organizations involved," the Vienna-based IAEA said in the report.

However, the a 10-page report called on Iran to further discuss and cooperate on alleged issues.

"Iran has not provided the necessary cooperation to permit the agency to confirm that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities," it added.

"Altogether this raises concerns about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile," Amano said.

This is while the UN nuclear watchdog has carried out the highest number of inspections in its history on Iran's nuclear energy program and has also found nothing to indicate that the program has diverted toward weaponization.

In a reaction to Amano's report, Iran's IAEA ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh said on Thursday the agency's chief confirmed the fact that the country's nuclear program is peaceful in nature.

"In fact Amano's report once more confirmed all previous reports over the past six years which showed that Iran's nuclear program is peaceful," Soltanieh said.

/Press TV/