Iran is in non-compliance with nuke accords: US

"The United States believes the facts already established would fully justify an immediate finding of non-compliance by Iran with its safeguards violations," Ken Brill, the US ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told a meeting of the agency's board of governors.

He said the United States had "taken note, however, of the desire of other member states to give Iran a last chance to stop its evasions, and have agreed today to join in the call on Iran to take 'essential and urgent' actions to demonstrate that it has done so."

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IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei said the 35-nation IAEA board of governors meeting in Vienna this week was ready to "call on Iran to show full transparency and accelerated cooperation."

He said the board members were in "intensive consultations" to agree on a resolution urging Iran to prove it is not veering from the peaceful use of nuclear energy in order to develop weapons.

He said Iran should "accelerate its cooperation" in order "in the next few weeks... (to) clarify all the important issues that are outstanding, particularly in regard to the (uranium) enrichment program of Iraq."

ElBaradei said the UN nuclear agency "would like to resolve this issue as early as possible" but would not be setting a deadline.