The White House accused Iran Wednesday of an `unfortunate and disappointing` failure to cooperate with the UN nuclear watchdog agency and effectively rejecting a US offer for high-level talks.

Iran said it has no further obligation to the International Atomic Energy Agency even after the UN watchdog said in a report on Wednesday it needs more cooperation on Tehran`s disputed nuclear drive.

The UN atomic watchdog on Wednesday reported scant progress in its investigations into alleged suspect nuclear activities in both Iran and Syria.

The International Atomic Energy Agency, despite six years of intensive investigation, is no closer to determining whether Iran`s disputed nuclear drive is entirely peaceful as Tehran claims, the watchdog said in a new report Wednesday.

Iran is still defying UN demands to suspend uranium enrichment and not cooperating with investigations into claims that its nuclear programme has a military aspect, the UN atomic watchdog said Wednesday.

Iran is still defying UN demands to suspend uranium enrichment and not cooperating with investigations into claims that its nuclear programme has a military aspect, the UN atomic watchdog said on Wednesday.

Iran has not made any contact with the hijackers of a Hong Kong-registered cargo ship it chartered and which has now been hijacked off the coast of Yemen, the state IRNA new agency said Tuesday.

`So far no contact has been made with the ship and the hijackers,` Majid Ensan Najib, a senior official at the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, told IRNA.

Iran has not made any contact with the hijackers of a Hong Kong-registered cargo ship it chartered and which has now been hijacked off the coast of Yemen, the state IRNA new agency said Tuesday.

`So far no contact has been made with the ship and the hijackers,` Majid Ensan Najib, a senior official at the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, told IRNA.

Iran has blocked access to more than five million Internet sites, whose content is mostly perceived as immoral and anti-social, a judiciary official was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

`The enemies seek to assault our religious identity by exploiting the Internet,` Abdolsamad Khoram Abadi, an advisor to Iran`s prosecutor general, was quoted by Kargozaran newspaper as saying.

Iran has blocked access to more than five million Internet sites, whose content is mostly perceived as immoral and anti-social, a judiciary official was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

`The enemies seek to assault our religious identity by exploiting the Internet,` Abdolsamad Khoram Abadi, an advisor to Iran`s prosecutor general, was quoted by Kargozaran newspaper as saying.