Russian nuclear contractor Atomstroyexport cannot complete the work on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant by the end of 2007, Igor Ivanov, secretary of Russia’s Security Council said on Tuesday, April 17. Ivanov sited cash crunch and technical problems as reasons for the delay.
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April 18, 2007Moscow is displeased with Iranian air defense exercises near a Russian-built nuclear plant, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
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April 12, 2007According to Russia’s nuclear power plant construction company Atomstroyexport, a group of Russian experts will visit the construction site of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant to ensure progress in talks aimed at breaking a stalemate over project financing.
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April 9, 2007Russia’s leading nuclear scientist said on Monday that it was just a question of time before Iran developed a nuclear weapon and it should be stopped, the Reuters news agency reported on Tuesday.
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April 3, 2007Iran has resumed paying for construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant but has still to catch up after recent shortfalls, the AFP news agency reported quoting an official statement by Russia’s atomic energy agency.
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March 27, 2007Russia is bringing home its technicians and engineers from Iran’s unfinished nuclear reactor site at a time of growing international pressure on Tehran to curb its atomic ambitions, U.S. and European representatives said on Tuesday according to the Associated Press report.
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March 21, 2007Iran on Tuesday denied a press report on Russia having withheld nuclear fuel for the Bushehr nuclear power plant in south Iran unless Iran suspended its uranium enrichment programmes in line with United Nations Security Council demands, the FARS news agency reports.
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Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin on Tuesday denied reports that Moscow had imposed an ultimatum on Iran over its nuclear program, the Xinhua news agency reports.
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Russia has told Iran that it will withhold fuel for Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant unless Tehran suspends its uranium enrichment program as the U.N. Security Council demands, the Reuters news agency reports quoting an article on The New York Times web-site.
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March 20, 2007The Russian state-run company building a nuclear plant in Iran warned Wednesday that Iranian payment delays may cause “irreversible†damage to the project, The Associated Press news agency reports.
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