Here are the main points from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report, which was sent to the Council and could lead to UN sanctions against Iran.
- Iran has continued to enrich uranium by putting feedstock uranium gas into centrifuges at its pilot plant in Natanz. Batches were inserted in April and June and the most recent feeding of the centrifuges, which refine out what can be nuclear reactor fuel or atom bomb material, took place last week.
- While Iran's enrichment work is small-scale and only research, it is expanding. The Iranians plan to have a second 164-centrifuge cascade running by September.
- Iran has caused problems for IAEA inspectors, such as blocking them from an underground site under construction at Natanz and not giving full one-year, multiple-entry visas. But these problems have apparently been resolved.
- Iran is not cooperating in resolving key unresolved questions, such as work with high-tech P-2 centrifuges and work that could possibly be weapons-related. It is also not doing enough to clear up concern over traces found of highly enriched uranium, which could be used to make weapons.
- Iran is not applying the Additional Protocol to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, blocking inspections that could help clarify the Iranian program by examining activities that could be nuclear-related but where there is no nuclear material.