Nuclear program of Iran

Representatives of Russia and Iran signed Tuesday an agreement under which the Russian company Rosatom is to build eight units for Iranian nuclear plants.

Russia will also provide the fuel to be used at the reactors, the daily Vedomosti reports.

Four of the units will be installed into the Bushehr NPP the construction of which Rosatom completed last year.

Russia on Nov. 11 signed a deal with Iran to build two new nuclear reactors and agreed to expand the total number of Russian reactors in the country to eight, the state nuclear agency Rosatom said.

Iran and world powers met in Muscat Nov. 11 amid growing signs that a long-bargained deal on Tehran's nuclear programme will not be struck by a November 24 deadline.
      

The United States and Iran began high-level talks in Oman Nov. 9 ahead of a looming deadline for a deal on Tehran's nuclear programme, with both sides under pressure at home.

Iran is failing to address suspicions it may have researched how to build an atomic bomb, a U.N. watchdog agency's report showed on Nov. 7, potentially complicating efforts by six powers to reach a deal with Tehran on its nuclear programme.

Iran's foreign minister said on Thursday that progress was made in "very difficult" nuclear talks with top U.S. and EU diplomats this week when possible solutions were discussed, sources who attended his briefing for Iranian media said.

Talks between US Secretary of State John Kerry, his Iranian counterpart and the EU foreign policy chief towards advancing troubled negotiations on Iran's nuclear drive started on Oct. 15

Iran and the major powers are set to hold multilateral and bilateral nuclear talks in the coming days in Vienna, the Iranian Foreign Ministry says

Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog will hold talks in Tehran on Tuesday, official media reported, their first since the country missed an August deadline for addressing questions about its suspected atomic bomb research.

Iran is to give a military grant to the Lebanese Army, the head of Iran's national security council said