MOSCOW, February 25 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian nuclear chief said Saturday in Tehran that he saw no political obstacles to the completion of the nuclear power plant in Bushehr. Sergei Kiriyenko, the head of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Power, said, "We see no political obstacles to the completion of the construction [of the nuclear power plant, which Russia is building in Bushehr] and are interested in the soonest launch of the NPP."

About 3,700 Russian experts are currently helping to build the $800-million plant, originally started in the early 1980s by German specialists, in the port city of Bushehr in southern Iran in accordance with a 1992 agreement between the two countries.