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QUESTION: Iran. Iran's President today suggested that Iran may resume uranium enrichment and halt the IAEA snap inspections of its nuclear sites, if the IAEA does not recognize its cooperation at its next board meeting. I think this is a revived sort of threat. I think they have said things like this in the past.
MR. BOUCHER: I think they have said things like that before. We've seen these remarks. We don't think it's appropriate to try to intimidate the Atomic Energy Agency or its board into overlooking the many failures of Iran to meet its nonproliferation commitments.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has documented 18 years of clandestine nuclear activity in Iran. Tehran has repeatedly failed to declare significant and troubling aspects of its nuclear program. It's interfered with and suspended inspections. It's failed to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency in resolving outstanding issues related to the program. And Iran has made clear, as shown by those remarks, that Iran doesn't somehow feel bound by its pledge, its own pledge, to suspend all enrichment-related activity.
So we expect to see the Director General's next report on Iran in the next few days. We'll continue to urge complete disclosure and complete cooperation by Iran with the International Atomic Energy Agency, and we call on Iran to make good on its repeated pledges to cooperate with the agency. QUESTION: There's been a series of what you regard as failures on Iran's part that you just described. Do you plan, finally, to ask the board to refer the matter to the United Nations, and possible sanctions?
MR. BOUCHER: Let us see what the Director General reports, and we'll see what the appropriate course might be at the next meeting.
QUESTION: I just want to make clear. You think -- you believe the comments today were an attempt to intimidate the BOG?
MR. BOUCHER: I would say that they appear to be that way. We don't think that's an appropriate action vis-a-vis the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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