Crimea Crisis: Putin agrees to build ‘two Iran nuclear plants’

As tensions escalate between Ukraine and Russia over the Crimea peninsula, report by the Iran's official IRNA news agency on Wednesday says that Russia has signed a preliminary agreement to build at least two more nuclear power plants in the Iranian port city of Bushehr. The deal which was reached during a visit to Tehran on Tuesday by a senior official of Russia's state atomic energy agency Rosatom, IRNA said.

"Russia and Iran reached a preliminary agreement to build at least two new nuclear power plants," Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi told the news agency. He said that the two new 1,000 megawatt plants will be built alongside the existing power station in Bushehr, which was also built by Russia.