"Russian specialists have finished the construction of the nuclear power plant in Bushehr," he said, "and 80% of the equipment for it has already arrived in Iran."
He said, "on Tuesday evening another shipment of equipment for the plant's first unit arrived in the southern Iranian port of Bushehr [Persian Gulf]. It is expected that the rest of the instruments and mechanisms will arrive at the end of March."
He said the pressure from Washington and other Western countries on Russia and Iran would not influence the implementation of this project. "The Russian officials have the political will to complete the first unit of the Bushehr nuclear power plant as soon as possible," he said.
The Bushehr nuclear power plant will be completed in the second half of 2005 and, as has been scheduled, will be put into operation in 2006.
