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Mixed messages from Russia on nuclear reactors

PRESIDENT Putin of Russia issued a defiant message to the US yesterday on his country’s nuclear co-operation with Iran, saying that he had a personal assurance from President Khatami that Iran had no plans to develop nuclear weapons.

Russia is building Iran’s first nuclear power plant at Bushehr and is considering the possibility of building five more reactors. The US says that Iran is using the construction of civil nuclear facilities as a front for a covert nuclear weapons programme and regards assurances from the Iranian leadership as meaningless.

US officials have repeatedly raised the matter with Russia and are frustrated by what they regard its refusal to take their concerns seriously.

Speaking at a press conference in Moscow, Mr Putin said: “Two days ago…

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