[Washington Post] Peter Finn - Russian officials said Monday that nuclear fuel will not be delivered to Iran this month as planned and that the September completion of a Russian-built nuclear power plant will be postponed because of an escalating dispute between the two countries. Moscow and Tehran have been arguing for weeks over what Russia calls Iran's failure to make $25 million monthly payments on the $1 billion plant in Bushehr. Underlying the financial dispute appears to be increasing Russian hostility to Iran's suspected desire to build nuclear weapons and its flouting of international demands that it stop the enrichment of uranium. "We do not need a nuclear Iran or an Iran with the potential to create them [nuclear weapons]," a Russian official told Russian news agencies Monday. "We will not play any anti-U.S. games with it."
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