Iran has agreed to clarify all outstanding questions over its past nuclear activities within a month, the UN nuclear watchdog has announced.
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An IAEA spokeswoman said Mr ElBaradei had also received information on Iran's "new generation of centrifuges".
Western countries fear Iran is refusing to suspend uranium enrichment because it wants to produce a nuclear weapon.
Tehran denies this, insisting the programme is solely to generate electricity.
Uranium quandary
The announcement by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) came after Mohamed ElBaradei's two-day visit to Iran, during which he met top officials including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
He has been trying to resolve various issues about the history of Iran's nuclear programme.
Mr ElBaradei will also be looking at how to monitor Iran's future nuclear activities.
But so far he has made little progress in persuading Iran to stop the controversial process of enriching uranium, says the BBC's Jon Leyne in Tehran.
The US is currently pushing for a third round of UN sanctions against Iran over its refusal to stop enriching uranium, a process which can be used both to make atomic fuel and a bomb.
Washington has said it believes Iran is planning to build a nuclear bomb.
Its campaign for tougher sanctions lost some steam when a US intelligence report last month suggested Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons programme in 2003.
In a keynote speech on Sunday, US President George W Bush, who is currently visiting the region, said Iran was the "world's leading state sponsor of terrorism".
(BBC)
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