`` The report is very comprehensive , credible , quite damning , and alarming , '' the official said . Read the IAEA report here Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad slammed the report as a fabrication of facts aimed at satisfying U.S. allegations about Iran 's nuclear program . Ahmadinejad essentially called Yukiya Amano , the director general of the IAEA , a U.S. puppet and said the United Nations agency has no jurisdiction in Iran . `` The Americans have fabricated a stack of papers and he keeps speaking about them , '' he said on state-run Press TV . `` Why do n't you do a report on the U.S. nuclear program and its allies ? Present a report on the thousands of U.S. military bases where Washington has nuclear arms that threaten global security . '' The IAEA had released another report on Iran in September but this one was highly anticipated because of the military aspect . Since 2002 , the IAEA has regularly received new information pertaining to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile , the report said . It said Iran has made `` efforts , some successful , to procure nuclear
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The International Atomic Energy Agency issued a critical report Tuesday saying that it has `` serious concerns '' about Iran 's nuclear program and has obtained `` credible '' information that the Islamic republic may be developing nuclear weapons . The IAEA report , the most detailed to date on the Iranian program 's military scope , found no evidence that Iran has made a strategic decision to actually build a bomb . But its nuclear program is more ambitious and structured , and more progress has been made than previously known . `` The agency has serious concerns regarding possible military dimensions to Iran 's nuclear program , '' the report said . `` After assessing carefully and critically the extensive information available to it , the agency finds the information to be , overall , credible . The information indicates that Iran has carried out activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device . '' U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the report had just arrived and refrained from commenting on details at an afternoon briefing . But a senior U.S. official called the report `` a big deal . ''