ARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany, June 12 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told a group of German students Iran is building nuclear weapons, a report said Thursday.
The New York Times reported Rumsfeld said while the intelligence community does not believe Iran has nuclear weapons now, "they do have a very active (nuclear) program and are likely to have nuclear weapons in a relatively short period of time."
In Washington, a senior official said the administration had asked the International Atomic Energy Agency to refer the issue of Iran's suspected nuclear arms program to the U.N. Security Council at a board meeting on Monday.
The agency's report found Iran had failed to declare the existence of facilities, including a heavy water research reactor, that could enable it to produce nuclear weapons.
Rumsfeld is on a four-stop tour that began in Portugal and is due to end at a NATO meeting in Brussels Thursday.
