Washington, Nov 01: The United States today called for the International Atomic Energy Agency to hold Iran its promises to come clean on its nuclear programmes as a deadline passed for the Islamic Republic to meet IAEA demands that it prove it is not developing atomic weapons. The State Department reiterated each of IAEA`s specific demands and said the agency`s governing board -- which will meet November 20 and 21 to consider a report on Iran`s compliance -- should ensure that all had been satisfied.

"Those are the standards against which the reporting on Iran needs to be judged and will need to be judged," spokesman Richard Boucher said. "The IAEA board will have to make the judgment to decide whether (Iran`s) actions ... comply fully with these standards," he told reporters, urging board members not to come to any conclusions on Iranian compliance until hearing IAEA chief Mohamed Elbaradei`s report.


"We expect that all will withhold their judgement whether Iran fully meets the board`s requirements until they see the director general`s report, including ourselves," Boucher said.


The IAEA`s Vienna Headquarters said earlier today it expects next week to receive a letter from Iran agreeing to allow wider and unannounced international inspections of its nuclear programme -- one of the key demands made of Tehran in September.

Elbaradei yesterday said that a report Iran filed on October 23 to answer the agency`s questions was "comprehensive" but cautioned that the jury was still out on its accuracy. Bureau Report