The chief UN nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei responded to US criticism, saying critics weren’t giving attempts to get Iran to come clean on past nuclear activities a chance to work.

The United States said there was potential merit to Iran’s nuclear transparency deal with UN inspectors, after earlier branding it a diversionary gambit to forestall tougher UN sanctions.

US director Oliver Stone has postponed plans for a film about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and is instead focusing his energies on a film about Vietnam, Pinkville, his spokesman said Friday.