Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday there was no need to review cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency now, the official IRNA news agency reported.Ahmadinejad was speaking a day after Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman suggested the Islamic Republic might have to limit its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), criticising a report released by the agency last week.
The Vienna-based U.N. agency said in a May 26 report Tehran's alleged research into nuclear warheads was a matter of serious concern and that it should provide more information on its missile-related work.
The United States accuses Iran of seeking to develop nuclear arms. Tehran denies the charge but its refusal to suspend sensitive nuclear work has prompted three rounds of U.N. sanctions since 2006.
Iran's new parliament speaker Ali Larijani, the country's former chief nuclear negotiator, last week said the current levels of cooperation with the IAEA were in jeopardy if major powers continued to "kick around" Iran's disputed nuclear case.
Asked whether Iran planned to review cooperation with the agency, Ahmadinejad was quoted by IRNA as saying: "There is no necessity now to review that."