Iran awaits brief response to nuclear offer

Iran awaits swift response to nuclear option

Iran expects a quick response from country powers on an accord to ship considerably of its lower enriched uranium to Turkey as component of a nuclear fuel swap work, the foreign ministry mentioned on Tuesday.

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

"We expect members of the Vienna party (the United States, France, Russia and the IAEA) to rapidly announce their readiness" to implement the energy swap, he told reporters.

The IAEA claimed it has obtained the text of the joint declaration by Iran, Brazil and Turkey but was now ready for Tehran to notify it directly of what commitments it had undertaken.

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

The so-known as Vienna Team made an supply final October to ship most of Iran's LEU out of the country in return for bigger grade reactor fuel to be supplied by Russia and France.

Iran stalled on the work insisting it wishes a simultaneous swap on its own personal soil, which was rejected by country powers.

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

Mehmanparast mentioned if the Islamic republic reaches agreement with the countries involved in the initial IAEA-backed option, it "will pave the way for much more nuclear cooperation."