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Iran to launch Bushehr plant in Sept.

Ali-Akbar Salehi, director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran says the Bushehr nuclear power plant will be launched in September.

Speaking at a Thursday gathering of academic officials in Tehran, Salehi said that nuclear-generated electricity will be available later in the summer despite the West’s efforts to undercut Iran’s civilian nuclear program, IRNA reported.

Iran, however, has the upper hand now after the introduction of the Tehran Declaration led to the appearance of cracks in the US-brokered consensus for the imposition of new sanctions against the Islamic nation, he told the audience.

“Even if approved in the UN Security Council, a new anti-Iran resolution will be inefficient,” he went on to say, adding that Iran’s nuclear file will eventually favor the Islamic Republic due to the country’s lawful position and strong diplomacy.

“Iran seeks objective guarantees for the swapping of nuclear fuel (with low-enriched uranium) within the framework of the declaration,” noted the chief of the AEOI.

He also said that Iran has made significant progress in the discovery and excavation of uranium.

According to the Tehran Declaration, Iran has agreed to send some 1,200 kg of its 3.5 percent enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for a total of 120 kg of 20 percent uranium usable as fuel in nuclear reactors.

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