The diplomats and officials spoke ahead of a meeting of the IAEA board Thursday focusing on Iran's defiance of U.N. Security Council demands to end uranium enrichment _ which can make both nuclear fuel and fissile warhead material _ and dispel other suspicions that it may be seeking nuclear weapons. But the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of the issue, played down as "unrealistic" reports that the United States would condition supplying the hardware on Israel promising not to attack Iran this year.
– Diplomats from the UN's nuclear agency say they've seen satellite images of Iranian trucks and earth-moving vehicles working at Iran's Parchin site, in what they suspect is an attempt to scrub the area of radioactive traces ahead of the IAEA's visit. Diplomats tell the AP that they saw trucks hauling off soil that they suspect could have been contaminated in tests of a nuclear weapon trigger mechanism—whose only purpose, one diplomat said, would be related to a nuclear weapon. Israel touted the pictures as evidence of "what Israel has been saying all along … the Iranian nuclear program is not benign." Israel seems increasingly eager to attack Iran; one official confirms for Reuters that in his visit to the White House, Benjamin Netanyahu requested bunker-busters and refueling planes, both of which would be conspicuously useful in an attack on Iran. An Israeli newspaper reported that President Obama had agreed, in exchange for promises Israel wouldn't attack this year, but Reuters' source called that "unrealistic."