File Photo: Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Reza Najafi (L) and Tero Varjoranta, December 11, 2013 (Photo: Reuters)
Iran said Thursday it held "constructive" talks with a visiting delegation of the UN nuclear watchdog seeking to resolve outstanding issues in Tehran's disputed atomic programme.
Tero Varjoranta, deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, led the team which held talks Tuesday and Wednesday on two final points on which the IAEA is still seeking explanations from Iran.
The two questions focus on concerns that the Islamic republic's nuclear activities had military dimensions.
"During these two days, all the bilateral issues were discussed, in particular, how to carry out the agreed measures and the ways forward were discussed," said Iran's ambassador to the IAEA, Reza Najafi.
"These negotiations were constructive in terms of content. They were also direct," he said, quoted on the state television's website.
The Vienna-based IAEA disclosed in September that Iran had failed to meet an August 25 deadline to provide information on five points meant to allay fears it was developing nuclear weapons.
Iran insists its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful.
One of the IAEA's questions centres on Iran's purported experiments with large-scale high explosives.
Under an agreement reached in November 2013 with the IAEA, Iran has already responded to 16 of the 18 issues the agency identified as relevant to its nuclear activities.
Satisfying the IAEA's concerns is considered crucial to a hoped for conclusion by November 24 of a comprehensive nuclear agreement with the United States and other world powers.
In a letter to the IAEA, Najafi has put the delay down to the "complexity" of the issues and said allegations of nuclear-orientated experiments lacked credibility and any solid proof.
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