Iran awaits brief response to nuclear offer

Iran awaits swift response to nuclear package

Iran expects a brief response from globe powers on an accord to ship considerably of its decreased enriched uranium to Turkey as aspect of a nuclear energy swap deal, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

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

"We expect members of the Vienna party (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 proclaimed it has acquired the text of the joint declaration by Iran, Brazil and Turkey but was now ready for Tehran to notify it immediately of what commitments it had undertaken.

"We are now expecting written notification from Iran that it agrees with the applicable provisions enclosed in the declaration," IAEA spokeswoman Gill Tudor stated on Monday.

The so-known as Vienna Group created an deliver final October to ship most of Iran's LEU out of the region in return for greater grade reactor energy to be supplied by Russia and France.

Iran stalled on the offer insisting it wants a simultaneous swap on its personal soil, which was rejected by earth powers.

Monday's accord signed in Tehran commits Iran to deposit 1,200 kilograms (2,640 pounds) of small enriched uranium (LEU) in Turkey in return for fuel for a Tehran analysis reactor.

Mehmanparast said if the Islamic republic reaches agreement with the nations engaged in the preliminary IAEA-backed deal, it "will pave the way for a lot more nuclear cooperation."