U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary RobertGates say last week's talks in Geneva between Iran and world powerswere somewhat successful.
The leaders spoke with CNN during an interview taped at George Washington University late Monday.
Clintonsaid the meeting with Iran yielded three agreements that give worldpowers time to assess Iran's commitment to negotiations. She said Iranagreed to ship low-enriched uranium abroad for processing, to allowinspections of nuclear sites, and to meet with world powers later thismonth for another round of talks.
Russia's foreign minister saidearlier Monday the six world powers had reached a preliminary deal tohelp enrich uranium for an Iranian reactor. But he said details ofthat plan have yet to be finalized.
Sergei Lavrov said expertswill meet in the near future to implement the plan. Iran and six worldpowers discussed uranium enrichment in Geneva last week.
Also Monday, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman hailed his nation's negotiations in Geneva as a "national success."
HassanQashqavi told reporters Monday that Iran resisted foreign pressureabout its nuclear program during the meeting last Thursday.
Atthat time, Iran agreed to meet with world powers on October 19 and saidit would allow inspections of its newly revealed nuclear facility nearQom.
United Nations nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei met withIranian officials in Tehran Sunday and announced that inspection willtake place October 25.
ElBaradei also said the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has no concrete proof that Tehran has anongoing weapons program. However, he said it is still investigatingallegations that Iran has studied nuclear weapons.
Iran says its nuclear program is peaceful.