Iran, powers get deal draft for approval by Friday

"I very much hope that people see the big picture -- that this agreement could pave the way for a complete normalisation of relations between Iran and the international community."

ElBaradei said France was part of the deal drawn up after exhaustive consultations with the parties, despite Iranian statements saying Paris must be excluded and accusing it of reneging on past contracts to deliver nuclear materials.

Diplomats said a face-saving compromise had been drafted by ElBaradei. Under this, Iran would sign a contract with Russia which would then sub-contract further work to France.

The Vienna negotiations offered the first chance to build on understandings struck in Geneva to defuse a long standoff over fears Iran's stockpiling of enriched uranium is a latent quest to develop atomic bombs, not fuel for electricity as it says.

Western diplomats say Tehran must ultimately curb the programme to dispel fears of a growing LEU stockpile being further enriched, covertly, to produce nuclear weapons.

But senior Iranian officials said this week Iran would not curtail enrichment as part of any LEU deal. LEU is used as fuel for nuclear reactors, while a nuclear bomb requires highly enriched uranium.

(Editing by Samia Nakhoul and Mark Trevelyan)