TEHRAN - After years of delay, Russia announced Monday that it had delivered its first shipment of nuclear
fuel to a reactor in southern Iran, a move Washington had long tried to delay to pressure Tehran not to pursue
its own enrichment program.
[...]Iran is a telling example. Until recently, it hadn't technically violated its NPT obligations. But this didn't prevent
Washington from applying substantial pressure on Russia and other countries in hopes of curtailing work
at Bushehr. In fact, in the 1990s, the United States successfully stopped China's nuclear cooperation with Iran
and forced Ukraine to pull out of the Bushehr project. If Washington failed to force Russia to stop construction
at Bushehr, it wasn't from a lack of trying.[...]
Bullteine of Atomic Scientiusts