“We will use it for peaceful [purposes in the] energy [sector], medicine, agriculture, and industry. The [IAEA] cameras are there, you can come and see. They film it all the time and conduct inspections. All our nuclear activities are transparent.” - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The IAEA report to the United Nations Security Council has been submitted, and just as everyone expected, the report points out Iran has not fully complied nor has the nation been transparent despite repeated statements by the Iranian leadership transparency was achieved. To further complicate matters, the IAEA report stated Iran has not just expanded the nation’s nuclear program, but that it is advancing faster than previously thought.

In its resolution in December, the Security Council gave Iran 60 days to suspend its enrichment operations and to answer a series of questions that nuclear inspectors have posed for more than a year. Those include requests, based on information found on a laptop computer that German and American officials apparently obtained from an Iranian scientist, that Iran say whether it is working on a way to integrate a nuclear weapon with the re-entry vehicle mounted on its medium-range ballistic missiles.

But the Iranians have provided no answers, they said. As a result, the atomic agency inspectors reported today that they are unable “to make further progress” in efforts to verify Iran’s past nuclear activities.

Moreover, the Iranians have sharply restricted the inspectors’ access to many of the sites they once were free to visit. As a result, the report said, many open questions remain unresolved, not least concerning a finding of traces of highly-enriched uranium — the kind that can be used to build a bomb — on some equipment. (source)

In addition to these findings, the IAEA report indicated Iran refused to have IAEA cameras installed in the Natanz complex, which again contradicts Ahmadinejad’s comments as shown above. Other key findings of the report:

1. In a letter dated 23 January 2007, Iran declined to agree at this stage on the use of remote
   monitoring, and requested the Agency to provide a detailed legal basis for the implementation of remote monitoring, as well as examples of where such measures were already being implemented in sensitive facilities in other States. The Agency provided clarifications to Iran in a letter dated 9 February 2007 and is awaiting Iran’s response.
2. During the design information verification (DIV) carried out at FEP on 17 February 2007, Agency inspectors were informed that two 164-machine cascades had been installed and were operating under acuum and that another two 164-machine cascades were in the final stages of installation. In light of his, in a letter dated 19 February 2007, the Agency requested that arrangements be made for the elocation of cameras into the cascade hall during the Agency’s next visit to FEP, which is scheduled to take place between 3 and 5 March 2007. The issue of remote monitoring remains to be resolved.
3. Iran has not yet responded to the Agency’s long outstanding requests for clarification concerning, and access to carry out further environmental sampling of, other equipment and materials related to the Physics Research Centre (PHRC); nor has Iran agreed to permit the Agency to interview another former Head of the PHRC.
4. Iran has not agreed to any of the required transparency measures, which are essential for the clarification of certain aspects of the scope and nature of its nuclear programme.
5. As underscored by the Director General at the meeting of the Board of Governors in November 2006 (GOV/OR. 1174, paras 86–94), given the existence in Iran of activities undeclared to the Agency for 20 years, it is necessary for Iran to enable the Agency, through maximum cooperation and transparency, to fully reconstruct the history of Iran’s nuclear programme. Without such cooperation and transparency, the Agency will not be able to provide assurances about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran or about the exclusively peaceful nature of that programme.

If Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful, which the nation repeatedly maintains it is, why would they go to such effort to hide different aspects of their program?