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WASHINGTON — U.N. sanctions may be the appropriate response to Iran (search), after the government in Tehran announced Sunday that it plans to continue its centrifuge construction for a nuclear program opposed by the international community, U.S. officials said. 'Iran needs to come clean and fully cooperate with its international obligations,' White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters travelling with President George W. Bush to a NATO summit in Istanbul. 'We have expressed concern within the IAEA about the need to consider sending this matter to the Security Council of the United Nations and I think this latest move may only serve to convince others of the need to seriously consider that step,' he added. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Iran will not begin enriching uranium, the process of injecting gas into centrifuges, but it has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (search), Britain, France and Germany of the country's intention to resume construction on the centrifuges -- a move critical to building a nuclear bomb. 'We declared to IAEA and the three countries that we are prepared to resume work as of June 29th,' Asefi said at a news conference. Asefi said Iran's program is aimed at generating nuclear power, not creating weapons.
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