Manama  - Bahrain Friday barred Iranian vessels from entering its territorial waters, as the week-long diplomatic row between Manama and Tehran mounted.

"Iranian shipping vessels had been asked to leave Bahraini territorial waters and no Iranian vessel will be allowed in until further notice," a Bahraini official who spoke on the condition of anonymity told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Officials from Bahrain Civil Aviation Affairs (CAA) said that flights between Bahrain and Iran were not affected.

New York/Vienna  - UN Security Council members on Friday said a new UN report offered proof that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons, while some raised the spectre of Iran being able to produce an atomic bomb with the amount of enriched uranium it has.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna said in an updated report late Thursday that the Tehran regime has underreported by a third the extent of its enrichment activities.

New York - UN Security Council members said Friday they eventually would have to tackle the new situation with Iran, which has continued its uranium enrichment programme and been found to produce enough fissile material for an atomic bomb.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna said in an updated report that the Tehran regime has underreported by a third the extent of its enrichment activities.

Hanover, Germany  - On a visit to Iran, former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was set to criticize Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denial that the Holocaust happened, a German newspaper said Friday.

In a speech prepared for delivery to the Iranian Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Teheran, Schroeder said, "The Holocaust is a historical fact. It makes no sense to deny this unique crime which Hitler's Germany was responsible for."

Washington, Feb. 20 : Atomic inspectors have found that Iran recently understated by a third how much uranium it has enriched. The officials also declared for the first time that the amount of uranium that Tehran had now amassed - more than a ton - was sufficient, with added purification, to make an atom bomb.

In a report issued in Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency said it had discovered an additional 460 pounds of low-enriched uranium, a third more than Iran had previously disclosed.

The agency made the find during its annual physical inventory of nuclear materials at Iran's sprawling desert enrichment plant at Natanz, the New York Times reports.

Washington  - Iran has yet to convince the international community that it has no intention to build nuclear weapons, the United States said Thursday after the release by the UN's nuclear watchdog of a new report on Iran's activities.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna said that Iran had considerably slowed - but not halted - its uranium- enrichment programme and was still not cooperating fully with the agency.

"We view this report as another opportunity lost to resolve international concerns," US State Department spokesman Gordon Duguid said in a statement.