The last meeting of the IAEA's 35-nation board was held on Friday. Several diplomats attending it expressed their belief regarding the fact that Iran's cooperation wasn’t sufficient to stave off a new round of sanctions.

"Any new gesture or resolution in the UN Security Council would have a negative impact on cooperation with the Agency," a senior Iranian envoy said in Vienna.

At some point in the meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iranian Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh sustained that the ones that should be held responsible for Iran’s lack of cooperation should be the nations who "legally unfounded"  took the decision to send the issue to the Security Council.

Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the UN-backed agency, said that Iran’s cooperation has improved, but even more transparency is needed.

Iran made some progress by committing to answer very important questions about is nuclear past, ElBaradei said, but the good cooperation has weakened after the Islamic country stopped implementing transparency measures in reaction to UN sanctions.

However, the western powers such as France, Britain and Germany which suspect Iran of secretly pursuing a nuclear weapons capability remained suspicious of Iran's newly-found honesty.

Russia had a different opinion on the matter and said in its statement to the board that the latest progress report deserved a positive verdict.

Soltanieh also accused the United States of derailing the IAEA's work.
"The Americans are making the Agency busy with baseless allegations," he said.