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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (72476)	2/17/2005 4:37:21 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 89467

Russia's Nuclear Chief to Seal Iran Deal Associated Press MOSCOW - Russia's nuclear chief said Thursday he will travel to Iran next week to sign a protocol on returning spent nuclear fuel to Russia, the only remaining obstacle to the launch of a Russian-built nuclear reactor in Iran. Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency head Alexander Rumyantsev said he would sign the long-delayed protocol in Tehran on Feb. 26, paving the way for deliveries of Russian nuclear fuel for the Bushehr reactor, which is set to begin operating in early 2006. The United States and Israel fear the $800 million Bushehr deal could help Tehran build nuclear weapons, by allowing Iran to reprocess spent nuclear fuel from the reactor to extract plutonium. Moscow has said having Iran ship spent fuel back to Russia - along with international monitoring - will make any such project impossible, but the U.S. has continued to oppose the deal. The protocol had been delayed repeatedly by what Iranian and Russian officials have described as technical and financial details. Nuclear agency spokesman Nikolai Shingaryov said deliveries of enriched nuclear fuel could start within a month or two after the signing. Igor Ivanov, the secretary of Russia's presidential Security Council, on Thursday told his visiting Iranian counterpart Hasan Rowhani that Moscow will continue "helping develop Iran's peaceful nuclear energy program." Washington accuses Tehran of having a secret nuclear weapons program, while Iran insists its nuclear activities only serve peaceful energy purposes. In a sign of the sensitivity surrounding Bushehr, an explosion Wednesday near Iran's southern port of Deylam, close to the reactor, prompted fears of a missile attack. Though U.S. and Israeli officials denied any involvement with the blast, it spiked oil prices and stirred up fears about the confrontation over Iran's nuclear program. Iranian officials said the explosion was part of construction on a dam, but warned that any attack on its nuclear facilities would meet a swift response.http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/10925134.htm