TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran said on Monday it is ready to discuss the issue of exchanging atomic fuel in upcoming talks with world powers about its overall nuclear program, ISNA news agency reported.

""We are ready to hold simultaneous talks with the 5+1 and the Vienna group about the fuel swap,"" ISNA quoted Iran's atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi as saying.
Iran and the 5+1 -- the permanent UN Security Council members Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States plus Germany -- are to hold talks on Tehran's overall nuclear program on November 15-18.
Iran is engaged in separate negotiations with the Vienna group comprising France, Russia, the United States and the UN atomic watchdog over the issue of procuring nuclear fuel for a Tehran-based research reactor.