Iran said it is to send its nuclear agreement with Brazil and Turkey to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) despite renewed threats of sanctions, a news report said on Friday.

“The Tehran agreement plus a letter by the president (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) will soon be sent to the IAEA,” Iran’s atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi was reported as saying by television network IRIB.
Iran agreed on Monday to ship its low-enriched uranium (LEU) to Turkey and store it there until it receives higher enriched uranium fuel for its Tehran medical reactor.
If the IAEA and the Vienna group (the United States, Russia and France) approve the agreement, Iran would send 1.2 tons of its LEU to Turkey within a month.
Despite the proposed agreement, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council have prepared a resolution for renewed sanctions against Iran.
The five, including Iran’s allies China and Russia, reached agreement on a “strong draft” of the resolution, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Tuesday.
“The U.S. and its allies’ persistence to go on with the sanctions’ plans proved our standpoint that the U.S. is not trustworthy,” Mr. Salehi said.
“On the other hand, Iran and independent countries like Brazil and Turkey proved that they are quite capable of handling and resolving crisis situations,” added Mr. Salehi, who is also the nation’s vice president.
(Source: The Hindu)