Europe's top three powers distributed a draft resolution at the UN atomic watchdog calling for Iran to be reported to the UN Security Council this week over potentially weapons-related nuclear fuel work, diplomats told AFP.
"We're going for referral this week," a Western diplomat said, confirming that the United States, as well as EU negotiating trio Britain, France and Germany, had lost patience with Iran.

The Security Council could use measures ranging up to trade sanctions to try to get Iran to stop nuclear fuel activities and to cooperate fully with an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) investigation.

The emergence of the draft resolution ends weeks of speculation about how strongly the West would move to counter Iran after it resumed fuel work last month, claiming its nuclear program is peaceful and that it had the right to this technology under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).