Iran will enhance high uranium if third-party deals fail

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Iran said that it will enrich uranium, the most divisive part of its atomic programme, to the 20 percent clarity required for a research reactor in Tehran if third-party deals fail.

"We will write a letter and pronounce to the agency (International Atomic Energy Agency) that Iran will act frankly to supply the fuel for the Tehran reactor," ISNA news agency quoted Ali Shirzadian as saying when asked what would happen if proposed third-party deals fail.

Officials from Iran, the United States, Russia, France and the IAEA are to assemble in Vienna on October 19 , 2009 to work out the modalities for deals under which Tehran has said, it is organized to buy 20 percent pure uranium from abroad.

"Iran completely owns the enrichment technology and hence it will sit at the discussing table with influence," Shirzadian said, adding that Tehran desires to "buy the fuel for the Tehran reactor in mass as it is more economical."

He also supposed that the reactor needs about 200 kilograms of 20 percent pure uranium to operate, but did not state how long that would last.

During the latest talks in Geneva between Tehran and six major world powers, Iran granted to buy the superior grade uranium required from overseas suppliers.

Uranium enrichment lies at the compassion of Western concerns about the Iranian nuclear programme. The susceptible process can produce fuel for national nuclear reactors or, in greatly extended form, the fissile core of an atomic bomb.