Nuclear Monitor Says Iran Fails to Provide Data 
By Elaine Sciolino
June 13, 2006
The New York Times
Original Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/13/world/middleeast/13iran.html

PARIS, June 12 — As Iran weighs how to respond to an international package of incentives intended to curb its nuclear activities, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday faulted Iran for failing to provide information crucial to understanding fully the nature and intent of its nuclear program.
In prepared remarks in Vienna opening the agency's 35-country board meeting, Mohamed ElBaradei, the director general, said his agency has not made much progress in resolving outstanding verification issues. He added, I would continue to urge Iran to provide the cooperation needed to resolve these issues.
Dr. ElBaradei's assessment was expected. Since February, Iran has substantially reduced access to dozens of atomic sites, programs and personnel, abiding only by the minimum cooperation required under arms-control accords.
But the board meeting of the agency, the United Nations' nuclear monitoring group, comes at a delicate diplomatic moment as Iran is considering an offer by the United States, China, Russia and three European nations to freeze major nuclear activities in exchange for the promise of economic and political incentives.
Dr. ElBaradei kept his comments on Iran short and declined to take questions from reporters.
Still, he made it clear that he welcomed the initiative by the six nations, calling it a way to reach a comprehensive agreement that would address the need of the international community to establish confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program, while also simultaneously addressing Iran's security, technology and economic needs.
The incentives package, the details of which have not been made public, offers Iran the chance, among other things, to buy light-water reactors for energy purposes and new civilian airplanes and spare parts for its aging fleet as well as to hold substantive talks with the United States.
Iran would be required to agree to freeze its uranium enrichment-related and reprocessing activities before formal talks on the substance of the package could begin, and the freeze would continue until Iran met a strict list of requirements. Because of opposition from the United States, the package does not include an offer to open an intergovernmental dialogue with Iran about security issues.
Dr. ElBaradei did not refer to the fact that Iran restarted enriching uranium in Natanz last Tuesday. On Monday, Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign policy chief, said he expected an initial response from Iran at any time.
In Tehran on Monday, an Iranian government spokesman, Gholam Hossein Elham, suggested that the country was unwilling to bend to the will of the outside world and freeze its enrichment-related activities.
Iran has achieved nuclear fuel technology, he told reporters. And we will not negotiate our absolute right with anyone.