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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flanked by his Brazilian counterpart Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, left, and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan before signing an agreement in a nuclear fuel swap deal in Tehran. (AP)
Iran agreed yesterday to ship the bulk of its low enriched uranium abroad in a fuel swap deal backed by Turkey and Brazil that could blunt calls for sanctions over Tehran's sensitive nuclear programme.
The agreement, which commits Iran to depositing 1,200 kilograms of its low enriched uranium in Turkey in return for nuclear
fuel for its Tehran reactor, was signed in the Iranian capital by the foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey and Brazil.
Iran said that with the signing of the deal, the ball is now in the court of Western powers while President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for fresh talks over the Islamic republic's nuclear programme.
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