The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei is warning no military action should be taken against Iran and that threats of war are premature and counterproductive. On Sunday, France warned that it was preparing for a possible war against Iran, and The Telegraph of London reported that the Pentagon has developed a list of up to 2,000 bombing targets in Iran. ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said there is no evidence of ongoing prohibited nuclear or nuclear-related activities in Iran.

Mohamed ElBaradei: “I repeated that we have not seen any undeclared facilities operating in Iran, we have not seen any concrete evidence that the Iran program is being weaponized. We have not received any information to that effect. So, I haven’t heard any other information to the contrary. So while we’re still concerned about the nature of the Iranian program, we should not — I do not believe, at this stage, that we are facing a clear and present danger that requires that we go beyond diplomacy.”

ElBaradei also urged the world to remember what happened in Iraq before considering any similar action against Tehran.

A year ago the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency accused the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee of issuing a misleading and erroneous report on Iran's nuclear program. The report claimed Iran had enriched uranium to weapons-grade level when the IAEA had only found small quantities of enrichment at far lower levels.

Editor’s Note: The original version of this headline incorrectly stated the IAEA had sent a more recent letter accusing congressional Democrats of “drafting a misleading and erroneous report on Iran’s nuclear program.” The IAEA sent the letter on September 12, 2006, and addressed it to Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich), then chair of the House Intelligence Committee. The Republican majority of the committee released the report on Iran without taking a vote or discussing it before the full committee. Committee member Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) did not have a role in drafting the report and was publicly critical of its findings. At the time Holt said the Hoekstra report was “clearly not prepared in a manner that we can rely on.”]