Iran to give IAEA more nuclear details

TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran is preparing to give the International Atomic Energy Agency more details of its response to proposals from the major powers for the supply of nuclear fuel, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Friday.

""We have some more details which we have to give to the IAEA,"" television quoted Mottaki as saying on its website.

""We have three options -- enrich the fuel ourselves, buy it directly or exchange our uranium for fuel,"" he said.

""They have to choose from these options. Given the need of Iran to have the fuel, my view is that they (the IAEA and the major powers) will accept another round of discussions.""

A plan drawn up by the IAEA after talks between Iran and major powers in Vienna calls for Iran to export most of its stocks of low-enriched uranium abroad for further enrichment in Russia and conversion by France into fuel for a research reactor in Tehran.

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