Iran, Turkey and Brazil have signed a nuclear fuel swap deal to ship 1,200 KG’s of low enriched Uranium from Iran to Turkey and Brazil in exchange for nuclear fuel for a reactor in Teheran.

The agreement pledges Iran to send the 3.5% low enriched Uranium to Turkey in exchange for nuclear fuel and is seen as an action by Iran to prevent further sanctions to the country.

Foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said to reporters “Turkey will be the place to keep Iran’s 3.5 per cent (low enriched) uranium, one thousand two hundred kilos (of LEU) will be exchanged.”

The deal was signed in Tehran, Iran’s capital by the foreign ministers of the three countries after an agreement was made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s President.

Mehmanparast also added that Iran will officially notify the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) regarding the agreement within a week.

Iran have been under immense pressure from the United Nations (UN), United States and other Western European countries to send the stock of their low enriched Uranium for an exchange for nuclear fuel rods for a reactor.

Israel have already reacted to the deal by saying, Iran are only going into the agreement to take the international pressure off the country and to lighten the sanctions issued on the country.

A senior Israeli official in Jerusalem said “The Iranians have manipulated Turkey and Brazil in appearing to accept the enrichment of part of their uranium on Turkish soil,”

Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has also said that Iran is not serious about accepting international demands regarding its nuclear program which the country insists, is for good means.

However many country’s believe that Iran is going to use the nuclear technology to make weapons of mass destruction.

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