According to U.S. intelligence, Iran has halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003, but the U.S. is still concerned about Iran's nuclear ambitions.
US President George Bush said that Iran remains a threat to the world despite new intelligence report saying that the country may not be building nuclear weapons.
Bush stressed that Iran was still trying to enrich uranium and could restart its weapons programme.
Earlier the new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) released on Monday could hamper US efforts to convince other world powers to agree on a third package of UN sanctions against Iran for defying demands to halt uranium enrichment activities.
Iran says it wants nuclear technology only for civilian purposes, such as electricity generation.
Germany, along with Britain and France, led a diplomatic initiative with Tehran in 2004 and 2005 in which it discussed trade and other economic incentives for Iran to halt uranium enrichment, but the effort fell apart with the election of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iranian president.
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