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Iranian news agencies are reporting that Iran and Russia have agreed to start building two nuclear power plants in Iran’s southern city of Bushehr this month.

“Operations to build two new nuclear power plants in Bushehr will start on September 10 and it will take 10 years for the power [units] to be completed,” Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said on September 1, according to IRNA and Press TV.

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