The long wait for Iran’s response is over. The deal in which Iran had to dispatch most of its Uranium has received the response. On Thursday International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed that it received an ‘initial’ response from Iran regarding the deal.

Sources said that Tehran is aiming for two crucial changes to the deal. Its asking for gradual shipment of its Uranium and the second most important, it wants Nuclear fuel in return for its uranium.

Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that he will cooperate with the Western powers on the issue of nuclear fuel and technology issues. He said live on state television that “We welcome fuel exchange, nuclear co-operation, building of power plants and reactors and we are ready to co-operate”.

The President of Iran also said that it would nor retreat “one iota” on its nuclear rights and that if this deal is set then it would test the ‘honesty’ of the Western and Global powers.

Nazanine Moshiri of AlJazeera reported that “What Ahmadinejad said in his speech is that this is an opportunity to evaluate the ‘honesty’ of world powers and that is an issue here. What this does is it buys time – the Iranians will still be able to enrich uranium at their Natanz plant and they will still be able to replace whatever they have sent abroad”.

Author and journalist, Baqer Moin who specializes in Iran, told Al Jazeera that Ahmadinejad’s government may see a “positive side to the deal if it leads to reduce the international sanctions”. He said “I think that if the sanctions are lifted, it will help the Iranian economy because they really can’t afford to have a major foreign policy problem while at the same time an internal problem of unemployment”.

The controversy started when members of IAEA returned to vienna base, Austria with alleged reports that they were concerned with the nuclear plant near Iran’s Qom town. International concerns were raised and Iran was brought in front of the Global criticism.

Iran has already its enriching Uranium, for several years at another plant in the central city of Natanz it has been in controversy which had set sanctions from UN.

Enriched uranium produces fuel for civilian reactors, but in a highly extended form can also make the fissile core of an atomic bomb.