US is true nuclear proliferator: Iran

The United States and the European Union, in turn criticized Tehran for hamstringing the 106-nation meeting for a week by blocking consensus adoption of its agenda because of a phrase calling for the "need for full compliance" with the treaty. Diplomats accredited to the conference said Iran felt that wording would allow it to be targeted for its defiance of the UN Security Council.

Differences were reflected to the last minutes of the meeting by the failure of delegates Friday to adopt the Japanese "chairman's factual summary" Yukiya Amano's review of the debates initiated and documents submitted at the 130-nation meeting since its opening April 30.

The document was to have been annexed to the meeting's concluding report. But opposition from nonaligned nations, which felt it did not reflect their priorities and from Tehran, which opposed mention of "serious concern ... expressed over Iran's nuclear programme," led it to be listed only as one of dozens of documents submitted at the meeting.

Since the outset of the meeting, Iran has been a major issue, with Tehran defending its nuclear record and the United States and its allies accusing it of breaching the treaty.

The summary dedicated only one of its 59 paragraphs to Iran, noting that Tehran was urged to comply with UN Security Council resolutions calling for a halt of its uranium enrichment programme.

Still, that was too much for Iran. And while nonaligned delegates did not specify their opposition, several said the summary was "not factual enough."