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RUSSIAN NUCLEAR POWER MINISTRY REJECTS MEDIA REPORTS ON ALLEGED URANIUM-ENRICHMENT EQUIPMENT SUPPLIES TO IRAN

MOSCOW, NOVEMBER 20 (RIA NOVOSTI) - The Russian Ministry for the Nuclear Power Industry has rejected Western media reports, referring to diplomatic sources in the International Atomic Energy Agency, that Russia, as well as China and Pakistan, probably supplied uranium-enrichment equipment and technologies to Iran.

"In the end of the 90s, Russian enterprises signed with Iranian colleagues contracts for the supply of electronic equipment, including laser, for research goals. There was no other cooperation for research or technological purposes in the enrichment of uranium between Russia and Iran," Nikolai Shingarev, chief of the ministerial information policy board, said live on Radio Rossii.

Now, Russian-Iranian cooperation is limited to only building Unit No 1 of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, he said.