Iran has given an official from the United Nations' nuclear watchdog documents that Tehran says prove it has no plans to build an atomic bomb.
A diplomatic source said Iranian officials handed the documents to an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) official in Tehran last night, though the UN agency declined to confirm this.
Submission of the report meets a key demand of the Vienna-based IAEA, which has given Tehran an October 31st deadline to clear up suspicions its nuclear programme goes beyond power production to arms development.
An IAEA spokeswoman said it would take at least several days to assess the contents of the report, awaited with interest by a Washington administration that views Tehran as a major focus of terrorist activity.
The Iranian representative to the IAEA, Mr Ali Akbar Salehi, talking yesterday after meetings with Vienna-based officials, said: "It's an indexed file which contains a full report regarding the agency's questions and the history of Iran's nuclear activities . . . it will reach Vienna tomorrow morning."
Diplomats on the UN agency's governing board, who will decide whether Iran has fully met IAEA demands, are anxiously awaiting confirmation from the IAEA that the report is what has been demanded of Iran.