RUSSIA TO TRAIN IRANIAN NUCLEAR SPECIALISTS?

Russia’s Kurchatov Institute is considering a contract whereby it would train Iranian nuclear specialists, some of whom would be working at the Bushhehr nuclear power plant, an institute official said yesterday. The Russian-Iranian contract for the $800 million Bushehr project, which has been strenuously opposed by Washington, was signed in January 1995. (Interfax, March 27)

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