'No proof of more covert N-sites in Iran'

TEHRAN (AFP/Reuters) - Iranian parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani said Wednesday that Washington was trying to trick Tehran through a high-profile nuclear fuel deal brokered by the UN atomic watchdog.
In an interview, ElBaradei said UN inspectors had no proof of more covert nuclear sites in Iran but a newly revealed plant makes no sense for civilian or military ends by itself and mistrust has arisen.
The conservative who was Tehrans former chief nuclear negotiator also said Iranians must avoid falling prey to US smiles as the Americans carry hidden daggers.
If we analyse the role of the United States in the Iranian nuclear issue, it turns out that there was a trick in this proposal. They felt that they can politically cheat Iran, Larijani told the official IRNA news agency.
The UN-brokered deal envisages Iran sending most of its stock of low-enriched uranium (LEU) abroad for converting into fuel for a research reactor in Tehran.
Iranian officials, including Larijani, have rejected the proposal, but world powers, including Washington, still hope Tehran could agree to the offer.
But Larijani warned on Wednesday Tehran must remain alert when negotiating with Washington. One should not fall for US smiles and tactics. Americans sometimes talk about peace and sometimes they smile at the Islamic republics officials... but they have hidden daggers behind themselves.
If the countrys officials are smart, mature, and love the nations interests, they will not fall for US smiles. It is a big mistake if we think they will change their behaviour just because there is a change in administration, the Iranian politician said.
Talking to reporters in Vienna on Wednesday, UN atomic watchdog head Mohamed ElBaradei said a nuclear fuel swap inside Iran, as proposed by the Islamic Republic, is not an option.
I dont think that is an option. The whole purpose of the deal is to defuse the crisis, he said, referring to a deal he had brokered on the supply of nuclear fuel to a research reactor in Tehran.
ElBaradei told Reuters Irans insistence on a key change to a nuclear fuel deal could not be accepted by Western powers because it would not reduce its enriched uranium stockpile seen as an atomic bomb risk.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in Vienna Wednesday his country saw broad support for a resolution on Iran at the upcoming meeting of the UN atomic watchdog here. As you know, or perhaps have heard, we have prepared a resolution once again which will be tabled by Germany, Westerwelle told journalists after meeting with ElBaradei, saying that nuclear-armed Iran was unacceptable.
We and our partners are currently in consultations on the wording and were hoping for broad support at the board of governors meeting which begins tomorrow (Thursday), he said. This once again opens an opportunity, thats what were counting on. I hope to see favourable results. But one thing is clear from our point of view, he continued. As I have said, our patience wont last forever. And I expressly meant that against the backdrop of the discussion of further possible sanctions.