The new chief of the UN atomic watchdog, Yukiya Amano, accused Iran of not cooperating sufficiently with an investigation into its contested nuclear activities. In an opening address to an International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting in Vienna last evening, Amano said a UN-brokered deal to supply Iran with fuel for a nuclear research reactor is still on table. He said, Iran has not provided the agency with the necessary cooperation, which includes among other things, implementation of relevant resolutions of the IAEA board of governors and the United Nations Security Council. Amano expressed concern that Tehran may be working on a nuclear warhead and confirms that Iran has started enriching uranium to higher levels, theoretically bringing it close the levels needed for an atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khameinei has accused the United States and its allies with influencing the UN nuclear watchdog agency's stance on Tehran's nuclear programme. In a broadcast on state televisionnm he said that recent reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency show that this international agency lacks independence. In a related development, India and Saudi Arabia have backedongoing international efforts to resolve the controversy over Iran's nuclear programme peacefully through dialogue while encouraged Tehran to respond to the efforts to remove doubts over its atomic ambitions. In a declaration issued after a meeting between visiting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Saudi King Abdullah in Riyadh on Sunday, the two leaders called for continuation of these efforts.