QUESTION: Well, we know about the UN nuclear agencies report and you, at the State Department, addressed that last week. And Iran's -- number one, denies that they have a nuclear weapons program. How close, with ElBaradei being here today, how close is the U.S. to supporting sanctions against Iran? We've already agreed that they haven't been forthcoming. Do they pay a price for that?

MR. BOUCHER: The United States and other countries joined together on Friday, at the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and we left no doubt that Iran should come clean, fully cooperate with the IAEA and fully honor its commitments. Obviously, Iran's past record does not give us confidence that they will meet the terms of this resolution. But we have, I think, placed the ball firmly in Iran's court to meet the conditions and the requirements, as well as its own promises.

The resolution calls on Iran to take on all necessary steps on an urgent basis to resolve all outstanding issues, including Highly Enriched Uranium and Low Enriched Uranium contamination, and the nature and the scope of the P2 centrifuge program. It stresses the importance of complying with deadlines for further declarations required by Articles 2 and 3 of the Additional Protocol and that all such declarations should be correct and complete. And it called on Iran immediately to correct the shortcomings in its response to the Board's earlier call to suspend all enrichment-related and reprocessing activities.

Iranian officials, at this point, have made contradictory statements about their intentions regarding uranium enrichment. Press reports say that the leader, Mr. Khameini, has asserted it's "essential" that Iran continue to work on the nuclear fuel cycle; however, Mr. Rowhani, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council quoted as saying that Iran has not taken a decision.

So, once again, we call on Iran to comply with the decisions by the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency to comply with its promises.

How close are we to taking some other steps or the Board taking some other steps? That will depend on what Iran decides and what Iran decides to do. What we have asked again and again is for Iraq to meet the requirements of the Board and for Iraq to meet --

QUESTION: You're talking about Iran.

MR. BOUCHER: -- Iran to meet the requirements of the Board and Iran to meet its own promises, and what the Board will decide to do if they don't will be something we'll take up with the Board if they don't.

QUESTION: Is a deadline being entertained?

MR. BOUCHER: The resolution calls on Iran to do these things immediately so the Board will decide at what point it wants to take them up again if Iran doesn't.

Yeah, sir.

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QUESTION: Can I go back to Iran just very quickly and ask if the State Department or the Administration has a position on whether ElBaradei should take the unusual step of seeking a third term?

Apparently, it's sort of customary, there's no rule against it, two terms are considered the limit. He's up in 2005; that's a way away. Does the U.S. have a view that you are able to tell me?

MR. BOUCHER: At this point, the meeting is about to start. We'll see if this comes up in the meeting, but I don't believe that the Director General's expressed himself yet on what his intentions might be.

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