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Iran has agreed to send its uranium to Turkey for enrichment to resolve the international row over its nuclear programme, the Anatolia news agency reported Monday, citing diplomatic sources.

The deal was struck after 18 hours of talks in Tehran between the foreign ministers of Brazil, Iran and Turkey, said the report.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

The text that was agreed during the meeting will be put to Turkish Prime Minster Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the agency reported. He flew into Tehran on an unscheduled visit late Sunday.

Erdogan was invited by Iran to join Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for talks on the issue on Monday.

The three leaders would go over the final, detailed version of the agreement at that meeting, the agency added.

Brazil's Lula held talks on the issue with the Iranian leadership on Sunday.

At the heart of the international dispute over Iran's nuclear programme is the suspicion in the West that Iran wants the highly enriched uranium it produces to make an atomic bomb -- a charge Tehran vehemently denies.

Iran has so far dismissed a UN proposal to enrich abroad the uranium it says it needs for a nuclear research reactor.

AFP/vm