Iran very close to produce Nuclear weapon-may expedite nuclear bom USA said.

Mohamed ElBaradei the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency

"If anybody has any information we have not shared, that has passed muster, been assessed critically in accordance with our practices, please step forward today. Otherwise, as a preacher would say, you should forever hold your peace," ElBaradei told delegates. "We have, in our reports, always tried not to understate the facts or overstate the facts. We have serious concerns, but we are not in a state of panic. Because we have not seen diversion...

conservative Jomhuri Eslami quoted Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).


President Ahmednijan visit the nuclear plan in Iran.

the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency urged the 35-nation governing body to “put (your) heads together to break the logjam,” on the same day that Tehran submitted a package of proposals to foreign powers. The proposal is still secret and not out yet to the press.

He criticised countries – he did not name them but was clearly referring to Israel and France — who have suggested he hid evidence from his latest written report on Iran, pointing undeniably to illicit Iranian research into the making of atomic bombs.

“Talking about formalities, whether the work plan has been implemented or not, whether people telling us how to suck eggs, how to write our reports, whether there is a (secret) annex (on Iran) — these are not the issues,” he said in a swipe at both sides of the debate.

“If anybody…has any information we have not shared, that has passed muster, been assessed critically in accordance with our practices, please step forward today. Otherwise, as a preacher would say, you should forever hold your peace,” ElBaradei told delegates.

“We have, in our reports, always tried not to understate the facts or overstate the facts. We have serious concerns, but we are not in a state of panic. Because we have not seen diversion of nuclear material, we have not seen components of nuclear weapons. We do not have any information to that effect.”

ElBaradei’s Aug. 28 report lent credence to a Western the intelligence dossier implying military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear activity. But ElBaradei said caveats were still in order.

“It’s alleged (studies), the whole question is about accuracy, whether this is real — that is the $64,000 question. That is where we are stuck, we have a limited ability to authenticate,” ElBaradei said. “People talk about assessments. I’m not a rocket scientist,” the 67-year-old lawyer and diplomat said.

But the agency is losing patience with Iran, he said, for stonewalling IAEA efforts to verify that its nuclear programme is peaceful.

“I know you have been reacting to others,” ElBaradei told Iranian ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh, referring to Tehran’s 2006 decision to stop wider-ranging agency inspections because of U.N. sanctions. “But you are not penalizing others, you are penalizing yourself.”

Further, ElBaradei prodded Iran to stop evading a U.S.-led big power offer of negotiations that would provide it major trade benefits if it reined in its nuclear activity and made it transparent to non-proliferation inspectors.

“I’ve told (Iran) I don’t see where the problem is. The U.S. is making an offer without preconditions on that base of mutual respect. Soltanieh has said they are ready to have a comprehensive dialogue. I say the offer by the US can not be refused because it has no conditions attached to it and is based on mutual respect.”

He also warned Iran’s strongest Western critics against hyping the Iranian threat by talking about supposed IAEA cover-ups. “(You are) trying to undermine the agency, (but) in the end (you are) undermining your own credibility. We went through this during the time of Iraq.”

An outspoken ElBaradei clashed with the former U.S. administration over what he saw as its confrontational policy towards Iraq and Iran. He has said that anyone considering military force against the Islamic Republic would be “bonkers”.

ElBaradei’s more soft-spoken, reserved successor, Yukiya Amano of Japan, takes over in December.

Iran responds : No suspension of uranium enrichment: Iran

TEHRAN — Iran's proposal to world powers aimed at resolving the standoff over its atomic programme talks of global nuclear disarmament, a top Iranian official was quoted on Thursday as saying, while insisting there will be no suspension of uranium enrichment.

"This proposal covers all issues of interests... non-proliferation, disarmament... and using technology for peaceful purpose," the conservative Jomhuri Eslami quoted Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), as saying.

The paper said Soltanieh made the comments in an address to the IAEA's board members at their meeting in Vienna on Wednesday.

Iran's policy, he stressed, "is not to have suspension (of uranium enrichment) and to fully go ahead with our undeniable right of using peaceful nuclear technology."

Iran's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Wednesday handed over Tehran's package of proposals to representatives of six world powers -- the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany.

These nations, known as P5+1 are charged with negotiating with Iran to resolve the controversy over its atomic programme, which the international community suspects is aimed at making nuclear weapons. Tehran denies these charges.

Details of Iran's proposals to P5+1 have not been made public.

US respond : Iran may have fuel for crude nuclear weapon
United States military and intelligence officials have revealed that Iran may possess enough fuel to assemble a crude nuclear weapon, although how quickly such a device can be built remains unclear.

Given the pace of Iran’s uranium enrichment, some observers are advising President Barack Obama to begin preparing military options.

The New York Times reported that Iran “has created enough nuclear fuel to make a rapid, if risky, sprint for a nuclear weapon.”

In interviews over the past two months, intelligence and military officials, and members of the Obama administration, have said they are convinced that Iran has made significant progress on uranium enrichment, especially over the past year…

It is unclear how many months — or even years — it would take Iran to complete that final design work, and then build a warhead that could fit atop its long-range missiles. That question has been the subject of a series of sharp, behind-the-scenes exchanges between the Israelis and top American intelligence and military officials, dating back nearly two years and increasing in intensity in recent months.

Meanwhile Iran responded by presenting a new proposal for talks. The content of that proposal has not been made public

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