Iran plans to hold talks with all 15 members...

He said the deal, under which Iranian stockpiles of low-enriched uranium would be sent to France and Russia to be turned into reactor fuel, could be finalized in two weeks if all sides showed the necessary will, Iran"s ILNA news agency reported.

He said the talks, to begin "in the coming days," will focus on the "fuel exchange [deal]" and will be conducted by Iran"s missions in the respective countries.

The UN-sponsored deal to supply nuclear fuel for a research reactor in Tehran proposes Iran ship out low-enriched uranium to be processed into higher-grade nuclear fuel and then returned to Iran.

However, Iran insists it will accept nothing less than a simultaneous exchange inside the Islamic republic, saying it has not received guarantees the fuel will actually be delivered.

"In principle the issue of fuel exchange has been agreed upon. We think details could be worked out," Mottaki told a press conference after a two-day international nuclear disarmament

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