''Iran's first nuclear power plant is set to start up in early August, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Monday.
"The project has been completed and everything has been ironed out," the state RIA Novosti news agency quoted Ryabkov as saying.
"If this happens in the first days of August, it will fully meet our forecasts and expectations. And if it happens a few days later, there is nothing terrible about that."
Iran says it needs the plant, which had been under construction from the 1970s before being completed by Russia, to meet growing demand for electricity.
But the plant's construction has been strongly opposed by Israel amid fears that it forms a part of Iran's suspected nuclear weapons development programme"...............READ MORE
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