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Iran Faults Russia for Delaying Bushehr Launch
Iran has blamed on Russia the attempts to delay starting up its first nuclear power plant in Bushehr. The respective statement was made by Mohammed Saedi, deputy head of Atomic Energy Agency of the country.
Saedi refuted any payment holdup for Bushehr Nuclear Plant, specifying that Iran has never delayed such payments.
Earlier, Russia’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom) announced it could put off the dates of fuel supplies to Bushehr because Tehran has violated the payment terms. Iran is a month behind with the payments, Rosatom claimed.
The launch of Bushehr Nuclear Plant is slated for November 2007. Russia is building the first unit of the nuclear plant under the intergovernmental agreement made with Iran in 1992. The contract budget is roughly $1 billion.
The word of the project setback came far back in January 2006. Then, Tehran claimed Moscow was dragging construction on fears that the nuclear files of Iran could be transferred to the U.N. Security Council. Moscow denied the connection, attributing the holdup to purely technological reasons.
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