The International Atomic Energy Agency has declared Iran in defiance of an international deadline to stop nuclear enrichment. On Thursday, the IAEA said Iran is operating close to 1,000 centrifuges. Experts say it would take 3,000 centrifuges running for a year to enrich weapons-grade fuel. The Bush administration immediately vowed to lead efforts to impose more sanctions at the U.N. Security Council. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the possibility.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: “I am deeply concerned again that (the) Iranian government did not meet the deadline set by the Security Council. In fact, this has been in the hands of the Security Council. … (The) Security Council has adopted a sanction measure against the Iranians, and we hoped that the Iranian government would have fully complied with all these resolutions adopted by the Security Council.”