Russia firm on Bushehr plant (Iran)

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Russia firm on Bushehr plant

Russia vowed to start Iran's nuclear plant in June rejecting U.S. appeal to delay launching until Tehran proves it is not pursuing a nuclear weapons programme.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the Bushehr plant would be launched in June.

The start-up has been repeatedly delayed because of what Moscow described were financial and technical problems.

Later the same day U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to put off the plant launching. She said it would be “premature to go forward with any project” in the absence of Iranian reassurances on its nuclear ambitions.

Mr. Lavrov responded...

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