TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has made a proposal to Moscow to jointly produce nuclear fuel for its Russian-built Bushehr plant and future facilities, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation was quoted as saying Thursday.
"We have made a proposal to Russia for the creation of a consortium, licensed by that country, to do part of the work in Russia and part of it in Iran," state news agency IR [...]
BUSHEHR, Iran (AFP) - A defiant Iran started on Saturday loading fuel into its Russian-built first nuclear power plant, in the face of stiff opposition from world powers to its controversial atomic programme.
After more than three decades of delay, engineers finally began loading the Russia-supplied fuel into the plant in the southern port of Bushehr, in the presence of International Atom [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi announced on Friday that Iran has test fired a surface-to-surface missile, Qiam, a day before it is due to launch its Russian-built first nuclear power plant.
State television showed images of the sand coloured Qiam (Rising) blasting into the air from a desert terrain, amid chants of "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest).
The words "Ya Mahdi" were [...]
SOCHI, Russia (AFP) - Russia on Wednesday defended the nuclear power plant it is building for Iran in the southern city of Bushehr, days ahead of a ceremony to mark the formal launch of the controversial facility.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described the plant as an "anchor" that would keep Iran firmly fixed to peaceful use of nuclear power.
"It is a most important anchor which keeps Iran [...]
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia on Monday angrily slammed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's criticism of Moscow in the nuclear crisis as unacceptable and irresponsible, as tensions spiral with its traditional ally.
Ahmadinejad last week dubbed his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev the "mouthpiece" of Iran's enemies, in his strongest attack yet on Moscow after months of rising tensions betwe [...]
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MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian companies are ready to supply fuel to energy-hungry Iran, despite unilateral US and EU sanctions targeting Tehran's oil and gas sectors, the Russian energy minister said on Wednesday.
The pledge came amid a period of tension between Russia and Iran unprecedented in the last two decades, compounded this week by President Dmitry Medvedev's statement that Tehran was near [...]
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MADRID (AFP) - Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki rejected Tuesday as "totally false" Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's statement that Iran is close to having the potential to build a nuclear weapon.
"The recent comments made by Medvedev regarding the Iranian nuclear theme are totally false and we deny them," he told a news conference in Madrid.
"We do not know what the ultimat [...]
MOSCOW (AFP) - Iran is close to having the potential to build a nuclear weapon, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday in the clearest indication yet of Russian alarm over Tehran's atomic drive.
"Iran is nearing the possession of the potential which in principle could be used for the creation of a nuclear weapon," Medvedev said at a meeting with Russian diplomats quoted by Russian news agenci [...]
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