Iran and Russia signed a deal Feb. 27 to get the Bushehr nuclear reactor, Iran's first, up and running. Under the deal, Russia agrees to supply fuel, and Iran agrees to have the spent returned to Russia so that it cannot be re-processed for nuclear weapons. Iranian Vice President Gholamreza Aghazadeh and Alexander Rumyantsev, the head of Russia's Federal Atomic Energy Agency, actually met at the Bushehr plant for the signing. The deal comes just days after a notoriously chilly summit meeting between US President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Slovakia. (AP [2], Feb. 27)
See our last post [3] on Iran.
