Gholamreza Aghazadeh, who is also Iran's vice president, will hold talks on "the construction of the Bushehr reactor," Sergei Novikov, a spokesman for Russia's atomic energy agency Rosatom said, according to Russian media.

Novikov did not specify whom Aghazadeh would be meeting or whether officials would discuss the question of Iran's controversial nuclear programme, particularly uranium enrichment.

Iran rejects US-led allegations that its nuclear programme is aimed at making a nuclear bomb, saying the drive is for civilian energy purposes only.

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