A Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman commented on Thursday 15 November on the latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna:

'We will study Dr El Baradei's report carefully and offer detailed views at the forthcoming IAEA Board of Governors meeting (22-23 November). However, as the Prime Minister has indicated (in his recent Guildhall speech) if Javier Solana's talks with the Iranians do not show a positive outcome, and as the IAEA report now shows that Iran has still not addressed several issues about its nuclear programme, we will pursue further Security Council and EU sanctions.

'If Iran wants to restore trust in its programme it must come clean on all outstanding issues without delay - including full disclosure on the P1 and P2 centrifuge issues by the end of the November - as well as implement the Additional Protocol and suspend its enrichment related and reprocessing activities as called for in UNSCRs 1696, 1737, and 1747'.