In a report to be submitted to it’s Board of Directors on 16 June, the IAEA has accused the Islamic Republic of Iran of having imported secretly 1.8 tons of enriched uranium for treatment in Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF).

"Iran and China felt no need to report the deal to the IAEA because of the low quantity of uranium. All the materials, including UF4 on which examinations have been carried out are being kept at the laboratory and the materials are not sensitive", Mr. Aqazadeh told journalists during a press conference.

"All the materials have been placed at the disposal of the IAEA", Mr. Aqazadeh said, adding that Iran had no facilities for enriching uranium that the IAEA is not aware of.

The United States and Israel are accusing Iran of using nuclear-powered electrical plant for military use and have pressed the IAEA to expose Iran’s nuclear programs.

The report that will presented at the IAEA's Board would detail the findings of repeated inspections of a number of Iranian facilities in the central city of Natanz, most focusing on a gas centrifuge program for enriching uranium - a basic building block for producing nuclear weapons.

The report, sources said, could well reveal the existence of new Iranian facilities that have not been publicly acknowledged, or even divulge that nuclear material has been introduced into the new facilities. The latter would likely set off a political storm over whether Iran has violated its NPT obligations.

"The Natanz inspections also showed that the gas centrifuges, believed to be based on a decades-old European design that US officials said was obtained from Pakistan in the early 1990s, had been substantially modified and upgraded. In fact, the IAEA inspectors described the Iranian machinery as "sophisticated" - hardly what would be expected from a country that previously had no uranium-enrichment centrifuge facilities declared to the nuclear watchdog agency or known publicly", "Jane's Defence Weekly" said on Tuesday.

But on Sunday, Mr. Kamal Kharrazi, Iran’s Foreign Affairs Minister told the Majles (Iran’s parliament) that Iran was not producing weapons of mass destruction, particularly atomic bomb, because the construction of such arms are "haram", or strictly forbidden by Islam.

In a sharp attack on the US attitude, Mr. Aqazadeh warned Washington not to use the controversial report for its own political ends and called on American officials to "substantiate" their accusations on Iran’s efforts to build WMD with hard evidence.

Asked about Iran's acceptance of the additional protocol to Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), he said that Iran never rejected the protocol and considers it positively, but the question is that by signing the NPT, the IAEA has undertaken to provide the member states with advanced technology for civilian use, until now, we see discrimination in the IAEA's assistance to the member states.

"We don't have extra expectations from the IAEA. We want transparency on behalf of the IAEA in cooperation with all member states".

"Removal of discrimination in IAEA assistance is our condition for signing the additional protocol to the NPT", he reiterated.

"Now they are creating problems for Iran to generate 7,000 megawatts of electricity from nuclear energy by the year 2020", he said, adding that Russia has been exposed to (American and Israeli) pressure since the early days of signing the deal on Booshehr power plant. ENDS IRAN NUCLEAR 10603