Larijani: West trying to deceive Iran on nuclear deal

Iran's Parliament (Majlis) Speaker warns that the world powers involved in an IAEA-brokered draft proposal on nuclear fuel supply intend to "deceive" Tehran.

"I think that Westerners are insisting to go in a direction of deception of some sort or imposing some issues on us in a way," Larijani told the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA).

"They said that we will give you the 20 percent (enriched uranium) fuel when you give us your (low) enriched uranium. We see no link between these two issues," he added.

Larijani termed such an exchange as illegal and illogical and said the US intends to "get the 4.5 percent-enriched uranium from Iran and change it into fuel through countries such as France and Russia."

"They may think that they can extract the enriched materials out of Iran. We hope the Iranians will pay due attention to the issue," he said.

Larijani's comments came after Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Ali-Asghar Soltaniyeh, told Press TV on Friday that Iran would respond to an IAEA draft on a third-party enrichment of uranium for a Tehran reactor next week. The United States, Russia and France have earlier approved the deal.

The deal is expected to supply 20 percent-enriched uranium for the Tehran reactor, which produces medical isotopes for treating cancer to more than 200 hospitals across the country.

The proposal was drafted earlier in the week after delegations from Iran, France, Russia and the United States as well as experts from the UN nuclear watchdog gathered in Vienna and ironed out the details of the uranium deal.

The Parliament speaker reiterated that based on the IAEA regulations, countries which possess nuclear fuel should supply the fuel for every country, which has an atomic reactor.