TEHRAN (Rooters) - Iran is aiming to commission its first nuclear power plant in 2009 after years of delays, the official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
Russia has already delivered nuclear fuel under a $1 billion contract to build the Bushehr plant on the Gulf coast in southwest Iran. But the start-up timetable has frequently been put back because of issues such as a row over payments.
Russia agreed to build the plant in 1995 on the site of an earlier project begun in the 1970s by German firm Siemens. The Siemens' project was disrupted by Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution and the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.
"The commissioning stage of Bushehr nuclear power station has begun and we are hopeful the power station will be commissioned in 2009 as per the agreement we have had with the Russian party," the spokesman for Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Mohsen Delaviz, was quoted a saying. He did not give a more precise date.
"There is a good environment prevailing in our relations with the Russians and we are hoping they will honor their commitments," he added.
Atomstroyexport, the Russian firm building the plant, said in September the plant was nearing completion and that it would start "technological work" in December 2008 to February 2009 that would put the plant on an "irreversible final" course.
Analysts say Russia has used Bushehr as a lever in relations with Tehran. It had previously said it expected the plant to start up some time this year.
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I would go for a Thanksgiving Day bombing of the plant. Just sayin'.
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ION IRAN, PAKSIATNI DEFENCE FORUM > MUSHARAFF RESIGNATION > MUSHARAF FACED SERIOUS CHARGES OF PERSONAL COMLICITY IN IRAN NUCLEAR CONNECTION [AQ Khan data includ design/blueprint for Chinese Nuclear Warhead]!?
ROLEX/SEIKO-GATE > Britain's MI6 believes that Tehran-based KALAYE ELETRCIC COMPANY, a noted proclaimed manufacturer of WRISTWATCHES, WAS COVERTLY DEV ADVANCED VERSIONS OF P2 NUCLEAR CENTIFUGES FOR IRAN'S NUCPROGS INCL. FOR NUCWEAPDEV???
IMO, RADICAL ISLAM'S JIHAD CAMPAIGN THRU ASIA IS MORE ABOUT PROCURING "STRATEGIC" NUCLEAR-WMD TECHS, NOT MEDIUM, INTERMEDIATE, ABDOR TACTICAL NUCTECHS AS PER AQ KHAN.
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ION NUKULAR, WORLD MIL FORUM > HU JINTAO VISIT TO UNCLE FIDEL/CUBA > US MEDIAS: CHINA COULD DEPLOY NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO CUBA IFF A US-CHINA MILITARY CRISIS ARISES OVER TAIWAN + HU JINTAO: CHINA, CUBA TO INCREASE ECONOMIC, INTELLIGENCE [Listening Posts, INTEL Stations]COOPERATION [+ by extens MILITARY COOPER].
Also from WMF Poster > USA, RUSSIA ARE FINISHED:CHINA'S RISE TO WORLD LEADERSHIP IS INEVITABLE. WORLD MUST RECOGNIZE CHINESE-LED ASIAN AND WORLD ORDER.
(AKI) - Iran will not obstruct Turkey's mediation between the US and Iran, according to an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hassan Qashqavi. Reacting to remarks made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday to a US daily that Turkey was ready to mediate between both countries, Qashqavi said: "We think the comments ... stem from Turkish goodwill and good and growing neighbourly ties between Iran and Turkey, so we will certainly not raise any obstacles."
"But the reality is that the issue and problems between Iran and the United states go beyond the usual political problems between two countries," warned Qashqavi.
Washington has not had diplomatic relations with Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, when university students loyal to Ayatollah Khomeini took over the US embassy and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. Since that time, the relationship between the two countries remains strained.
United States president-elect Barack Obama has said that direct talks are possible between both countries. However, the administration of outgoing US President George W. Bush has correctly called Iran part of the so-called 'Axis of evil' and has not ruled out military action.
Turkey's offer of mediating between the US and Iran is the latest in a series of diplomatic efforts by Ankara to bring peace to the region. Recently, Turkey has played a key role in mediating four rounds of indirect talks between Israel and Syria since May.
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TEHRAN (Rooters) - Iran is aiming to commission its first nuclear power plant in 2009 after years of delays, the official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
