By RIA Novosti
Vienna/Tehran : A Vienna-based Russian diplomat denied Sunday Iran’s claim that Russian nuclear fuel was ready to be sent to Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant and had been given security seal by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday that fuel for the plant, being built by Russia’s Atomstroyexport in south Iran, was “ready, with the security seal of the IAEA.”
However the Russian diplomat in Vienna, where IAEA is headquartered, said, “Fuel for the Bushehr plant has been prepared, and has been stored for several years in a plant in Serbia, but the process of sealing by international experts, which is the important step before transporting the fuel to the Bushehr, has not yet taken place.”