Iran's Bushehr plant to open mid-year

Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, has said the first reactor of Iran's long-delayed Bushehr nuclear power plant will be launched in the middle of this year.

Iran handed over the Bushehr project to Russia in 1995. The launch of Bushehr has been postponed frequently in recent years.

A general view of a nuclear power plant in Bushehr south of Tehran, April 3, 2007. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi/Files