Sky News - United Kingdom
Iran has begun construction of a new nuclear plant, the Russian TASS news agency has said, quoting the Iranian ambassador to Moscow.
President Ahmadinejad is defiant over nuclear prrogrammeIran currently has only one atomic facility, which is due to begin pruducing electricity later this year.
Last month Foreign ministers from the five permanent UN Security Council members and Germany met in Berlin to try to overcome differences on a third sanctions resolution on Iran's nuclear programme.
Tehran has repeatedly said that new international sanctions would not stop it from pursuing its "legitimate and legal rights" to a nuclear programme.
Russian and Chinese opposition to tougher penalties has hardened since a US intelligence report last month said Iran halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003 and the powers remain divided over how far a new resolution should go.
The US suspects Iran is secretly pursuing an atomic bomb, but Iran says its atomic programme is for civilian energy uses.
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