{"id":8005,"date":"2025-09-27T01:30:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T01:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/moscow-tehran-ink-agreement-to-build-nuclear-power-plants-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T01:30:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T01:30:54","slug":"moscow-tehran-ink-agreement-to-build-nuclear-power-plants-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/moscow-tehran-ink-agreement-to-build-nuclear-power-plants-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow, Tehran &#8216;ink agreement&#8217; to build nuclear power plants in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"medium-insert-images norender-embeds ui-sortable\">\n<figure contenteditable=\"false\"><figcaption contenteditable=\"true\" class>In this handout picture released by Russia&rsquo;s state nuclear agency Rosatom on September 24, 2025, Alexei Likhachev, General Director of Rosatom, meets with the head of the Iranian Atomic agency Mohammad Eslami in Moscow. &mdash; AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Iran and Russia have inked a $25 billion deal on Friday, aiming to give a boost to the nuclear capability of Tehran by building nuclear power plants.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A deal for the construction of four nuclear power plants with a value of $25 billion in Sirik, Hormozgan, was signed between the Iran Hormoz company and Rosatom,&rdquo; state television said.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has just one operational nuclear power plant in Bushehr in the south, with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts &mdash; just a fraction of the country&rsquo;s energy needs.<\/p>\n<p>According to state news agency IRNA, each plant will have a capacity of 1,255 megawatts, though no details were provided on the timeline.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as so-called snapback sanctions triggered by the European parties to a landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran are set to return by the end of Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Britain, France and Germany triggered the sanctions last month, accusing Iran of failing to adhere to its commitments under the agreement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>At a Security Council session on Friday, China, and Russia put forward a draft resolution to allow another half year for talks, but it is unlikely to garner enough support to pass.<\/p>\n<p>Western countries have long accused Iran of seeking an atomic bomb&mdash; a charge Tehran vehemently denies, defending its right to a civilian nuclear programme.<\/p>\n<p>The United States in 2018 unilaterally pulled out of the nuclear accord with Iran, prompting Tehran to begin walking back its commitments.<\/p>\n<p>Talks between Washington and Tehran to strike a new deal were underway before being derailed by unprecedented Israeli strikes on Iran in June that began a 12-day war, briefly joined by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Iran had previously signed with Russia a nuclear energy deal in 1993, allowing for the construction of the Bushehr plant, after Germany had abandoned it in the wake of the Islamic revolution of 1979.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Moscow, Tehran &lsquo;ink agreement&rsquo; to build nuclear power plants in Iran<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this handout picture released by Russia&rsquo;s state nuclear agency Rosatom on September 24, 2025, Alexei Likhachev, General Director of Rosatom, meets with the head of the Iranian Atomic agency Mohammad Eslami in Moscow. &mdash; AFP Iran and Russia have inked a $25 billion deal on Friday, aiming to give a boost to the nuclear&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/moscow-tehran-ink-agreement-to-build-nuclear-power-plants-in-iran\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Moscow, Tehran &#8216;ink agreement&#8217; to build nuclear power plants in Iran&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}