TEHRAN, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Iran will present its official response to the nuclear fuel deal proposal on Thursday, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported Wednesday.
Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Ali-Asghar Soltanieh, will meet the IAEA's Director General Mohamed ElBaradei on Thursday "and give Iran's response to the Vienna talks."
The report added that Soltanieh would arrive in Vienna later Wednesday.
The draft agreement, presented by the IAEA, calls for shipping most of Iran's existing low-grade enriched uranium to Russia and France, where it would be processed into fuel rods with a purity of 20 percent.
The higher-level enriched uranium would be transported back to Iran to be used in a research reactor in Tehran for the manufacture of medical radioisotopes.
Iran on Tuesday said it would accept the framework of the nuclear deal but wanted significant changes into it.
TEHRAN, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday reiterated his country's rights to peaceful nuclear energy and hailed Ankara's stance on Tehran's nuclear program, local Press TV reported.
"Nations cannot be deprived of their rights to peaceful nuclear energy while Israel possesses nuclear weapons," Ahmadinejad said during a meeting with visiting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Full story
TEHRAN, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- A top Iranian lawmaker said Monday that the team of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have finished their inspection of Iran's newly-disclosed uranium enrichment plant, local ISNA news agency reported.
Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived in Iran on Oct.25, 2009, in order to visit Iran's newly-disclosed uranium enrichment plant near Qom.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>>
"The inspectors of the agency have finished their job at Fordo (uranium enrichment plant)," Alaeddin Boroujerdi who heads Iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy commission was quoted as saying. Full story
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- The United States on Wednesday voiced its support for an proposal by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that the enriched uranium with a higher purity needed for research reactor in Iran would be produced abroad.
"We greatly appreciate IAEA Director General ElBaradei's skillful efforts and dedication to pursue this initiative of getting Iran to send out their low-enriched uranium to third countries," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told a news briefing. Full story
