"The report clearly reflects our stands on nuclear program and approves that our predictions were in the right direction," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi was quoted as saying.

Earlier Wednesday, it was reported that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a report that Iran might be honest when it claimed that the uranium contamination found by the IAEA inspectors had come from some imported equipments.

Asefi said "it is clearly stated in IAEA's latest report that'some of the previous ambiguities have been eliminated'. That is the result of comprehensive talks between IAEA inspectors and our nuclear technicians and scientists."

Asefi also reiterated that Iran has from the very beginning had a transparent and frank cooperation with the IAEA and its inspectors.

"We believe there is today no ambiguity in Iran's file at the IAEA, or if there is any, it is over very minute and insignificantmatters," he said.

"Iran has cooperated with the IAEA quite well, and that cooperation would continue in the future as well, since the Islamic Republic of Iran is determined to abide by all its commitments within the framework of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and its additional protocol," Asefi added.

As to another paragraph in the IAEA report which still urges Iran to provide transparent cooperation, Asefi said that it was only a routine reminder.

"The agency's general policy in such cases is to ask all countries to observe transparency in their nuclear projects, and in this latest report, too, it has once again asked Iran to observe transparency," he said.

"We hope the remaining minute issues would be resolved speedily in near future, although some parties keep making hue and cry overthe issue and try to create a chaotic atmosphere," Asefi concluded.

On Wednesday, Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran's former representative to the IAEA, also said that Iran's nuclear case would not be referred to the United Nations Security Council according to the information he had received.

The IAEA will hold a board of governors' meeting in Vienna in September, with Iran's nuclear issue high on the agenda.

   Iran has been consistently denying the US accusation that it issecretly developing atomic weapons, asserting that its nuclear research is fully peaceful and US accusation is politically motivated.

Source: Xinhua