Iran has neutralised half of its higher-enriched uranium stockpile, as per a deal agreed earlier this year, the world's nuclear watchdog says.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has been checking Iran's adherence to the deal, struck with six world powers.
The powers want Iran to scale back its enrichment of uranium, which they fear could be used to make a nuclear bomb.
Iran says its nuclear work is peaceful. It agreed to the deal in exchange for the easing of some sanctions.
Iran has diluted half of its higher-grade enriched uranium stockpile, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a confidential report.
Diplomats confirmed this conclusion of the report with the BBC. The full report is due to be published next week.
The report also said that progress in commissioning a nuclear conversion plant, part of the interim agreement, had been delayed, Reuters reported.
The IAEA, which has inspectors in Iran, issues monthly updates on whether Iran is complying with the interim deal with the six world powers, the BBC's Bethany Bell reports.
The temporary agreement was signed in January, and ends in July.
Iran and the six powers involved - the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany - are keen to start drafting the terms of a new deal by May, but correspondents say they are still some way apart.
The world powers want Iran to agree to permanently reduce the scope of its enrichment programme and to give UN inspectors more oversight.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has backed talks with world powers but warned Tehran will never give up its nuclear programme.
So far, the six world powers have been united in their negotiations but Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine last month has caused tension between Moscow and the West.
Russia and Iran are said to be negotiating an oil-for-goods deal thought to be worth up to $20bn (£12bn), which the US says would undermine the nuclear talks.
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