Iran awaits fast response to nuclear offer

Iran awaits rapid response to nuclear package

Iran expects a swift response from planet powers on an accord to ship a great deal of its low enriched uranium to Turkey as part of a nuclear fuel swap offer, the foreign ministry claimed on Tuesday.

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

"We be expecting members of the Vienna team (the United States, France, Russia and the IAEA) to instantly announce their readiness" to implement the energy swap, he told reporters.

The IAEA said 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 applicable provisions incorporated in the declaration," IAEA spokeswoman Gill Tudor mentioned on Monday.

The so-labeled Vienna Party built an provide last October to ship most of Iran's LEU out of the region in return for larger grade reactor energy to be supplied by Russia and France.

Iran stalled on the cope insisting it would like a simultaneous swap on its own soil, which was rejected by earth powers.

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

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