We need Iran to use maximum transparency because there are a lot of question marks about its program. They need to be assured that they can use nuclear power for electricity, but the international community needs to be assured that the Iran program is exclusively for peaceful purposes.

For the last three years we have been doing intensive verification in Iran, and even after three years I am not yet in a position to make a judgment on the peaceful nature of the (nuclear) program. We still need to assure ourselves through access to documents, individuals (and) locations that we have seen all that we ought to see and that there is nothing fishy, if you like, about the program.

to fulfill its verification responsibilities in a credible manner.

Iran has the technology to produce the highly enriched uranium, which is not automatically meaning nuclear weapon.

It clearly strengthens my hand in fulfilling our task in ensuring Iran's program is exclusively for peaceful purposes,

It clearly strengthens my hand in fulfilling our task in ensuring Iran's program is exclusively for peaceful purposes.