MOSCOW, February 27 (RIA Novosti) - An Iranian delegation will arrive in Moscow Tuesday to resume talks on the creation of a joint venture to enrich uranium in Russia, a source in the Russian group of negotiators said Monday.
Ali Hosseini-Tash, the deputy head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, will head the Islamic Republic's delegation, the source said, adding that the talks would begin Wednesday, March 1.
Sergei Kiriyenko, the head of the Russian Federal Agency for Nuclear Power, and Iranian Vice President Gholamreza Agazadeh, reached a preliminary agreement on the establishment of a joint uranium enrichment venture during the February 26 talks in Iran.
Kiriyenko said after the talks that he saw no "organizational, technical or financial problems in forming a joint venture."
The mooted deal between Iran and Russia, which is currently building an $800-million plant near the port city of Bushehr in the south of Iran, is seen as a potential compromise in the crisis standoff over the nuclear program of the Islamic Republic, which some countries suspect of pursuing a covert weapons program. Although Tehran has consistently said it only wants nuclear power for peaceful purposes, the United States and other nations have concerns, as enriched uranium is a vital component for an atomic bomb.
