RUSSIA TO EXPAND ACTIVITIES AT IRANIAN NUCLEAR PLANT.

TheRussian government will increase its construction activities atIran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, Interfax reported July 24.The contract is to take effect in August. Meanwhile, Mikhail Tarasov,an aide to Russian premier Viktor Chernomyrdin, told Interfaxthat the US and Russia have not yet reached an agreement on Russianplans to sell nuclear equipment to Iran but that one way out ofthe current impasse might be for Russia to prepare a list of everythingit plans to sell and then show it to the United States.

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