In mid-June, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Sputnik that Moscow and Tehran were close to reaching an agreement on the removal of excess nuclear material from Iran.
In May, he announced Russia’s readiness to consider alternative scenarios of transporting excess nuclear material from Iran to Russia, pending the clarification of Tehran’s position on the issue.
"If France or the United States agree, it may be possible," the source said of the two key members of the so-named P5+1 group of negotiators in Vienna.
In April, when the P5+1 and Iran reached a framework agreement in Lausanne, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif proclaimed the country’s readiness to join the global nuclear fuel market, selling enriched uranium in exchange for natural uranium.
