DESPITE INTENSE U.S. diplomatic efforts to halt Russian-Iranian nuclear cooperation, construction work has begun under Russia's $800 million contract to finish building one of two partially completed nuclear reactors at Iran's Bushehr complex 450 miles south of Tehran. The Clinton administration has repeatedly asked the government of Russian President Boris Yeltsin to cancel the January 1995 deal.
The United States opposes all nuclear cooperation with Iran on the grounds that it would enhance Tehran's ability to build nuclear weapons. In an annual proliferation report released in April, the Pentagon described Iran as "committed to acquiring nuclear weapons."
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