Russia"s foreign minister said on Tuesday...

Russia announced on Monday that the Bushehr plant in southern Iran would not be launched this year as planned. Technical reasons were cited as the cause of the latest in a series of delays in the $1 billion project.

"There is no link between what is going on at talks on Iran"s nuclear program and the construction of the Bushehr NPP," Sergei Lavrov said. "This is not politics - technological issues are being addressed."

Russia has been under Western pressure over its nuclear and military cooperation with Iran, which is suspected of seeking to develop nuclear weapons. Tehran last week called on Moscow not to bow to the pressure and fulfill a contract for the delivery of advanced S-300 missile defense systems.

Lavrov said Moscow is committed to a diplomatic solution to the dispute, adding that not all options have been exhausted yet.

President Dmitry Medvedev said after meeting with his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama, in Singapore on Sunday that Russia was

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