MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti) - Russia can build another nuclear power plant in Iran, a senior official from the company that builds Russian-designed nuclear plants abroad said Monday.

"If Iran holds a tender to build a nuclear plant, Atomstroieksport will bid for it, because we have the opportunity for the successful construction of another nuclear power plant in Iran," Vladimir Pavlov said.

He said Russia's recent successful projects to build nuclear power plants overseas, including in China, attested to Russia's ability to carry out another project in Iran.

Earlier reports said an Iranian government session chaired by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad decided to build another nuclear power plant in its southwestern province of Huzestan.

In early 2005, the Iranian parliament ratified a bill on the construction of nuclear power plants in the country in the next 10 years, targeting 20,000 Megawatts to satisfy Iran's electricity demand.

Russia is currently finishing the construction of the first unit of a nuclear power plant in the Persian Gulf city of Bushehr to become operational in 2006.