**The UN’s nuclear watchdog is set to debate Iran’s nuclear programme at a meeting of its board of governors.**The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has urged Iran in its latest report to clear up claims that it has been trying to make nuclear bombs.
Iran - which insists that its nuclear programme is purely peaceful - says the allegations are fabricated.
Syria is also on the agenda for the annual closed week-long session of the IAEA in Vienna, Austria.
The body’s 35-nation board of governors will discuss on Monday the nuclear watchdog’s latest report on its six-year investigation into Iran’s programme.
‘Forged’
The assessment said a visit to a plant in Natanz in August had noted a reduction in the number of centrifuges used to actively enrich uranium.
But it also accused Tehran of a lack of co-operation with the IAEA on Western intelligence allegations of weaponisation.
In a recent letter to the IAEA, Iranian ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh said the intelligence was “forged” and the matter was now closed.
Syria is also on the agenda at the meeting.
A recent assessment on Syria criticised it for not fully co-operating with an inquiry into allegations it was trying to build a nuclear complex.
Syria became subject to IAEA investigation in 2007 after Israeli jets destroyed what the US said was a nearly finished nuclear reactor.
It is claimed that the plant was built with North Korean help and could produce plutonium, a substance used in nuclear warheads.
Syria denies the accusations, but after initially allowing in IAEA inspectors last year, repeatedly blocked requests for further access.