The Associated Press reported: The United States, Britain and France are asking tough questions about Iran’s uranium enrichment program that are unlikely to be fully answered by a U.N. report due Thursday, setting the stage for a push for new sanctions on Tehran.

This source added: The queries are contained in separate confidential documents from the three nations and were made available to The Associated Press. The queries are contained in separate confidential documents from the three nations and were made available to The Associated Press.

Diplomats said the questions also were being circulated to other members of the U.N. watchdog agency’s 35-nation board and had been made available to ElBaradei’s office.
In 10 pages, Washington, London and Paris outline what they think Iran must tell the IAEA to build confidence that the enrichment program _ a process that can be used to make atomic weapons _ is being expanded only to fuel electricity-generating nuclear reactors as Tehran asserts.

France, for instance, wants the full “chronology of contacts” between Iran and the nuclear black market network that provided it with the initial centrifuges and other startup equipment needed for an enrichment program. And it asks for IAEA conclusions “explaining production by Iran of centrifuge components on military facilities” _ a possible link to a weapons program.

Associated Press added: Britain repeatedly asks “what has Iran told the Agency that has given the Agency confidence that Iran’s declaration in this regard is now correct and complete?”

Iran’s defiance of a U.N. Security Council demand to suspend uranium enrichment led to two rounds of U.N. sanctions, and the U.S. and its allies are urging a third set if Tehran doesn’t clear up their suspicions that its nuclear activities are a cover for a secret weapons program.