The following is a rush transcript of Press TV's exclusive interview with Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali-Asghar Soltaniyeh, On the third and final day of a nuclear sit-down with Western powers in Vienna.

Press TV: Elaborate on your take on what has happened in the last three days and on this draft agreement.

Soltaniyeh: Three days [of] intensive technical discussion on all aspects of an agreement for the supply of the nuclear fuel for Tehran research reactor, [which] is mainly producing radio isotopes, was a unique opportunity for the agency to its main statutory mandate in fact. It means facilitating the technical cooperation among member states. As you know this, for the last decade or so, the agency's activities for technical cooperation have been overshadowed by the inspections and exaggeration of calling the agency as the UN watchdog. Therefore, this is a welcoming event more important than this project.

As far as this project is concerned, following my June 2nd letter to director general, there was announcement of readiness by the US and Russia and later on, of course, France joined and, therefore this meeting was with the participation of the delegation from these counties.

Press TV: What was France's role? Because, of course, it was excluded to begin with, and then joined the talks and it has now been handed a copy of that draft proposal.

Soltaniyeh: In fact, when France announced its readiness to join and cooperate in this project. They announced [their] readiness for the part of fuel fabrication. It means Russia [would] do the enrichment, increasing the enrichment to 20 percent and then France [would] do the fuel fabrication.

However, at the beginning of the meeting, just recalling the previous unfortunate confidence deficit and the events of that, of course I am talking about the nuclear matters, including the enrichment of Eurodif company that — in spite of being 10 percent shareholder and also one billion dollar before the revolution — we have not had any possibility to receive material from this factory and also there is another peculiar issue which is the 50 tons of UF-6 (Uranium Hexafluoride), which is still in France and it is our property. Then we raised these kinds of examples in order to express our concern about assurances.

Then, of course, after the discussion, it was decided and after talking to our Russian friends, Russia announced that they are ready to be fully responsible for this contract and therefore, France is going to cooperate or any other country will be a subcontractor for this project.