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Iran said on Monday that it wants a review of a UN-brokered nuclear fuel deal, as Britain and Russia urged it to accept the offer and France warned Tehran that delaying tactics will not be tolerated. Pressure on the Islamic republic to accept the deal mounted as Iran indicated that it prefers to buy nuclear fuel supplies directly rather than sending its own uranium abroad for further enrichment. Tehran's latest stance on the high-profile proposal came as its close ally Moscow and London urged Iran to accept the offer, which aims to apply the brakes on Iran's galloping nuclear programme. We are ready to buy the fuel from any supplier under the full surveillance of the IAEA, as we bought from Argentina about 20 years ago with the cooperation of the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Tehran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told in Vienna.
