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Iran: Putin’s Promise Could Slow Iranian Nuclear Ambitions Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent promise to prevent the transfer of nuclear material to Iran until Tehran agrees to tougher nuclear inspections met with approval from some nonproliferation experts, USA Today reported today (see GSN, June 3). “It’s a move in the right direction,” said Michael Eisenstadt, a Middle East expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “It will slow down this particular route” to acquiring nuclear weapons, he added. Putin reportedly made the promise to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell last month and repeated it when he met with U.S. President George W. Bush this week during the Group of Eight summit in Evian, France (Barbara Slavin, USA Today, June 4). Bushehr Delayed The Bushehr nuclear reactor, which Russia is helping to build in southern Iran, is behind schedule, Russian Atomic Energy Minister Alexander Rumyantsev said yesterday. The reactor will be finished in 2005, a year later than expected, he said (Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, June 3).
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