Iran said Friday it needs more time to decide whether to sign onto a deal that could help end the international showdown over its nuclear activities. Tehran is "studying the draft proposal" and will have an answer next week, said Iranian diplomat Ali Asghar Soltanieh, on state-run Press TV. Soltanieh is Iran's representative for meetings with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.N. nuclear watchdog. It was at IAEA headquarters in Vienna on Wednesday that representatives from the United States, France, Russia, the United Nations and Iran settled on the draft proposal. IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei gave all the representatives until Friday to say whether they would sign the document, which he called "a balanced approach to the problem." The other parties have expressed support for the deal.
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