By Julian Borger, diplomatic editor - guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 9 November 2011 14.44 GMT France, Germany and UK urge further sanctions as IAEA finds evidence that Iran had worked on developing nuclear weapons
European states have called for further sanctions on Iran in the wake of a UN report that Tehran had worked on developing nuclear weapons, but Iran denounced the report as fabricated and said it would not compromise on its nuclear programme.
France took the lead in ratcheting up pressure, calling for a meeting of the security council; the foreign minister, Alain Juppé, said sanctions against Tehran should be raised to an "unprecedented scale" if Iran fails to co-operate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) investigations into past work on designing a nuclear warhead.
In a report issued on Tuesday, the UN agency said it had found credible evidence that Iran had been carrying out experiments aimed at designing a bomb on a substantial scale until late 2003, and may have continued work on a lower level after that time.
The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, attacked the credibility of the IAEA.
"Why are you ruining the prestige of the agency for absurd US claims?" he asked, in a speech to a crowd of several thousand people in the central city of Shahr-e-Kord in central Iran.
Should this IAEA report first lead to tougher sanctions and finally lead towards an excuse to go to War ??Ak Malten, Pro Peaceful Energy Use
European states call for stiffer sanctions against Iran following IAEA report
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