More details on the Iran uranium transfer deal

LR in Politico/ here

"In advance of U.S., French, Russian talks in Vienna Monday and a conversation between Obama and France's Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday, more details are emerging about a plan to move Iranian low enriched uranium to Russia and France for processing for future nuclear medical use in Iran.

The details are to be worked out at the meeting between American, French, Russian and Iranian represenatives meeting at the International Atomic Energy Agency next week. The AP report out of Paris below provides some seeming international message sending about how they'd like the deal to proceed -- with an emphasis on rapidement:

"World powers want Iran to agree quickly to the export of low-enriched uranium to Russia for further enrichment as it would reduce the risk of the material going for nuclear weapons, France's Foreign Ministry said Thursday. ...

The three world powers want an agreement to be reached during the meeting, said Christine Fages, a ministry spokeswoman, during an online briefing. 

Under the deal, Iran would send 1.2 tons of low-enriched uranium from its Nantaz facility to Russia before the end of the year, Fages said. 

As part of the arrangement, France would later produce four fuel cells for a Tehran research reactor, she said. 

"France supports this initiative which, if effectively carried out in these conditions, would allow reduction in the short term of the risk that Iran could use this uranium for a nuclear weapon," Fages said. ...

"Iran has everything to gain" from the deal, Fages said, adding it would assure Tehran of long-term access to nuclear fuel for the production of radio isotopes for medical purposes, as it has said it wants. She did not elaborate on the French role. 

Iran warned Saturday that if Monday's talks fail to help it obtain fuel from abroad, it will enrich uranium to a higher level needed to power a research reactor. Such a move would heighten tensions in the standoff over its nuclear program. 

France's Foreign Ministry said a rapid response from Tehran is important so that "Iran shows, by concrete acts, the deep change in behavior that we are seeking from it on the nuclear issue." ...