TEHRAN, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Iran and Russia are progressing toward fueling Iran's nuclear power plant in Bushehr, Alalam Satellite TV reported Sunday.
"The nuclear fuel for the Bushehr plant is ready," Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was quoted as saying. "This fuel has been inspected and sealed by the International Atomic Energy Agency's inspectors."
Mottaki spoke at a news conference in Tehran Saturday after returning from talks in Moscow, where he met with Sergei Kiriyenko, chief of the Russian atomic energy agency Rosatom, Alalam reported.
Completion of the Bushehr plant is behind schedule, which has created tension between Russian and Iranian leaders, Alalam reported.
Iran insists it plans to use the Bushehr plant to generate power, despite Western claims that Iran aims to produce nuclear weapons.
