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Ahead of planned nuclear discussions in Vienna, Tehran expresses optimisms that the talks will be fruitful, or else it will enrich uranium to the 20 percent required for its research reactor.

"We will write a letter and announce to the [International Atomic Energy] Agency (IAEA) that Iran would act directly to supply the fuel for the Tehran reactor," if the talks failed, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Shirzadian said Saturday.

Officials from Iran, the United States, Russia, France and the UN nuclear watchdog plan to hold talks in Vienna on October 19 as Tehran weighs its options to supply its research reactor in Tehran with enriched uranium of 20 percent for producing radiomedicine.