Iran awaits quick response to nuclear work

Iran awaits quick response to nuclear option

Iran expects a brief response from globe powers on an accord to ship a great deal of its low enriched uranium to Turkey as part of a nuclear fuel swap work, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

Iran will notify the International Atomic Power Agency (IAEA) of the accord signed on Monday with Turkey and Brazil "in writing, via the normal channels, inside a week," foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said.

"We be expecting members of the Vienna team (the United States, France, Russia and the IAEA) to rapidly announce their readiness" to put into action the fuel swap, he told reporters.

The IAEA claimed it has acquired the text of the joint declaration by Iran, Brazil and Turkey but was now expecting Tehran to notify it immediately of what commitments it had undertaken.

"We are now ready for prepared notification from Iran that it agrees with the relevant provisions involved in the declaration," IAEA spokeswoman Gill Tudor said on Monday.

The so-called Vienna Team manufactured an present final October to ship most of Iran's LEU out of the nation in return for higher grade reactor fuel to be supplied by Russia and France.

Iran stalled on the work insisting it wishes a simultaneous swap on its private soil, which was rejected by entire world powers.

Monday's accord signed in Tehran commits Iran to deposit 1,200 kilograms (two,640 pounds) of reduced enriched uranium (LEU) in Turkey in return for energy for a Tehran exploration reactor.

Mehmanparast stated if the Islamic republic reaches agreement with the nations required in the initial IAEA-backed offer, it "will pave the way for far more nuclear cooperation."