…REPEATS DENIAL THAT IRAN DEAL IS DANGEROUS.

On Monday, Tass quoted Prime Minister Chernomyrdin as saying Russia’s two contracts to build three reactors at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant "had absolutely nothing to do with the creation of nuclear arms…Iran is our neighbor, and we know very well what is happening there," he said. "We will never allow Iran to create any kind of nuclear arms." Washington has bitterly opposed any nuclear deals with Iran, which it considers a sponsor of state terrorism, arguing Tehran might use the technology to develop a nuclear arsenal.

Russia Pledges Adherence to Economic Reform.