The UN nuclear watchdog accused Iran of failing to answer several questions about its nuclear program despite Tehran giving what it called a full disclosure last year.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Mohamed ElBaradei said on Tuesday after the IAEA issued a report on the unanswered questions that he wanted to see "much more prompt" information coming from Tehran.
"I hope this will be the last time any aspect of the program has not been declared to us," he told reporters.
US officials said Iran was believed to be hiding still more evidence of an advanced nuclear weapons program.
"There is some classified stuff the United States knows that we think the IAEA will discover ... by investigating and pursuing leads," said one official, declining to be identified.
The IAEA's report said Iran had been actively cooperating but should "intensify its cooperation" because of the unanswered questions.
These included why Iran did not declare designs for advanced "P2" enrichment centrifuges, parts of which it made, and why traces of both highly enriched and low-enriched uranium (HEU and LEU) had been found at two sites in Iran.
Centrifuges are used to enrich uranium, to purify it for use in weapons or to make nuclear fuel for power plants.
The report said of the HEU and LEU traces: "Until this matter is satisfactorily resolved, it will be very difficult for the agency to confirm that there has not been any undeclared nuclear material or activities."
Under international pressure, Iran gave the IAEA in October what it called a full declaration of all its nuclear activities.
Iran says its nuclear program is entirely peaceful, while Washington says it is a front for building an atomic bomb.
Iran has said highly-enriched uranium traces found by IAEA inspectors were the result of contaminated centrifuge parts it bought on the black market.
The IAEA said that did not explain the finds and the matter was a "major outstanding issue."
"There's no evidence in the sense that it proves Iran had a nuclear weapons program, but it does suggest for the first time in any IAEA report I've ever seen that Iran was working on nuclear weapons," said David Albright, a former UN weapons inspector.
But the IAEA report praised Tehran for its decision to freeze further activities related to uranium enrichment.
Iran agreed to suspend all uranium enrichment activities in November last year, but failed to agree with the IAEA on a definition of what exactly that meant.
The report said Iran agreed on Tuesday to suspend "remaining enrichment activities."
One Vienna-based diplomat said Iran would probably avoid being reported to the UN Security Council when the IAEA Board of Governors meets on March 8.
"They will be criticized for sure, but what will help them on the board is this suspension of enrichment," he said. "Some countries will be satisfied with the progress made. They will say, `You can achieve things by negotiating with them.'"
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