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Iran’s top nuclear official has confirmed that Russia is set to build eight nuclear power plants in Iran under an existing bilateral agreement, according to the state-run IRNA news agency. Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), shared the update on Monday during a visit by members of the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee to the AEOI headquarters in Tehran. Eslami revealed that four of the planned reactors will be built in the southern province of Bushehr, marking a significant expansion of Iran’s nuclear energy infrastructure in cooperation with Moscow.
