Model of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. Photo: Bernd Brincken.

YNet – An Iranian lawmaker says the country’s first nuclear power plant in southern port of Bushehr faces more delays because of money demands from Russia.

The reformist Aftab daily on Monday quotes Asgar Jalalian, a member of the parliament’s special committee on the plant, as saying that Iran has already paid at least twice the expected costs for the 1,000 megawatt plant. Russia’s Rosatom is building the facility.

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